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[katkt]

Over the weekend, I heard a number of mentions of how various political candidates are courting the "women vote". The idea of "women" as a voting block is nothing new, of course, but I think I've finally reached saturation on it. If we MUST segment the population into artificial groups for purposes of making gross generalizations about attitudes

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[curiositykt]

you (the Men vote) dies sooner, on average, so I would guess there are more of us (The Women vote) than any other voting "block". Which increases the insanity of generalizations about a large group of very different people. Also I kinda want the news media to start talking about the Men vote, as it would be funny to hear and might get the message across that this is such a silly way to break up the voter blocks.

[katkt]

I started by trying to write satire using a discussion of the men vote as the basis .... but then I was too grumpy and tired to be funny.

[siderea]

Dude. So long as policy concerns specific to women -- such as laws regulating the having and using of uteruses -- are treated as marginal and "special interest", sufficiently large number of women will necessarily behave in ways that make "women" functional voting block.

[katkt]

That's true. Of course, the fact that things are that way also seems like a reasonable reason to be cranky on a Tuesday morning. I think the commentators I was reacting to were using "women voters" to mean "white middle class mothers", so I was reacting more to the marginalization of women who don't fall into those categories.

[siderea]

Oh, well, okay then. Carry on. :)