Personally, I think voting for someone because she’s female is as sexist as voting for someone because he’s male. I like to choose my candidates based on what’s between their ears, not what’s between their legs.
HEAR,HEAR. And voting for skin color without consideration of the candidate’s actual record is similarly racist.
One of the major flaws of democratic government is the dependence of the voters on the pictures of the candidates presented by the ‘news’ media. In the case of this election, so much hype has been attached by said media to the race/gender tags affixed to the Democratic candidates that one can see that the fight promoters of the media are revelling in the theatrical battle between racists and sexists.
It’s about time for media to kick out those fight promoters and horserace touts, and get some reporters to do some serious examination of the candidates’ records and proposals for governing if elected. There are some probing questions which we voters seriously need to see and hear answered, without the platitudes that the fight promoters and horserace touts accept to fill in their racist vs sexist narratives.
