| A Prediction |
[Mar. 2nd, 2008|01:51 pm] |
Barring the possibility of a black, female president, the USA will have a black, male president before it will have a white, female president. This is because Americans are more sexist than they are racist.
Reasoning: Who got the right to vote first in the USA, black men or white women? Was there a black or a female senator first? Have there been more black senators or female senators? The answer is always black first, female second. And women are sexist against women as well, often without being aware of it.
Qualifications: I don't mean that their opinions about the minority sex are on average more damning than their opinions about people with dark skin, but rather that their assumptions about the roles of men and women are held on a deeper level and involve more (implicit) agreement on the part of the minority about what those roles are. Also, and this should go without saying, when I use the word "minority", I don't mean in terms of population but in terms of political power. Lastly, I'm not saying it should be this way. Our political processes are faulty in too many ways to count, and the tendency to vote for a type of person rather than the person themselves is just one of them. |
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