Now that I've been told twice that all women should vote for Hillary Clinton merely because she is a woman I've decided to address the topic.
First of all, I would like to reiterate that I believe we can and should freely vote for anyone we want for any reason we want. With that said, everyone can understand my position on the matter before I get started critiquing the aforementioned comment.
The primary problem with adopting the philosophy that women should vote for Hillary just because she too is a woman is that it abandons the notion that we should vote for someone based solely on his or her principles. In a sense, voting for her based on the fact she is a woman is the antithesis of "progressiveness" because we would only be voting for her based on her gender. This is an affront to civil rights because it wasn't long ago that women were fighting to prove that they could compete in a man's world. Men were voted for, hired, praised, etc. for the mere fact that they were men. The female sect should have been and was enraged.Women struggled to prove that gender played no role in intelligence or ability. Voting for her for her gender is simply the reverse: women become the hypocrites. Any true egalitarian would agree.
It was also brought up that Hillary would be forced to do a good job in office because she will bear the burden of being the first female president. She would be obligated to all women to demonstrate to all the world that a woman can run the United States, and run it well. That is simply not true. In fact, (to play devil's advocate, as I usually do) she could be banking on winning primarily due to the above rationale on the part of non-thinking Americans to obtain the American throne. Once there, she could abuse the power just as everyone else has since...since who knows when.
The point I'm trying to make is that the voting public simply must look beyond gender or skin color when making important decisions. The truth is that American voters don't have as much power as they think they do. Having a female president will only matter if she is of principle, strong moral premises, and honest. Otherwise she is no different than any of the male presidents we have had all along.
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hehe. This leads me to question democracy. Should everyone get to vote or should they pass an IQ test first.
that was a question... clearly I would not pass.
That's clearly a moral question.
Obviously IQ doesn't necessarily correlate with whether or not a person can make an informed decision. Ha. It really more impacts their ability to figure things out for themselves!
Lol. I think there should be a qualifying test to determine knowledge about specific issues. Nothing too detailed, but definitely the basics.
In order to vote? Good god. I think people would stop bothering because there would be far too much work involved.
Voting for Hilary just because she is a woman isn't too far away from not voting for her just because she is a woman...
I agree 100% with you.
Decided to elaborate: The president should be chosen solely based on his or her principles. If Hillary is the right choice because of that, then I am content. No one should get anything just because of gender. (Unless someone was holding some kind of contest in which one had to have the appropriate attributes of a male or female in order to compete...yeah, I will let you all think of the possible scenarios.)
So, like a breastfeeding contest?
Exactly!
I mean...I suppose we could let some guys enter...but the outcome would still be quite predictable. Ha!
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