[quote=sdduuuude]Does it really matter ?
We don’t elect a gender for VP, we elect a person. The merits of that person are what they are, regardless of their gender.[/quote]
if women see the world fundamentally different than men, it matters. i think there’s an argument that they actually have different brains. like, people are not all the same.
i think based on my very anecdotal evidence of living with just one female over many years, they a re different. they are “people”, but not the same kind of people as men.
also, women just recently started participating in democracy, as in my gramma couldnt vote in an election when she was young. and even when i was a lad, women were kind of not taken seriously. I remember women still being kind fo a joke when i was young. how they were limited in many ways. i myself thought of women as weak and not suited for many roles. so i think a female vp might have some symbolic value. kind of like female MMA fighting and combat roles are very important.
we are all allegedly equal nowadays. but im not persuaded … when was the point in time when everyone started getting treated equally, blacks, women… 1972? 1986? 1991? or was it a gradual process, where we all became equalified into the current state of utter equality we enjoy today?
when i went to college, the alumni were still upset that women had been admitted to our school. i recall letters to the editor about how outraged they were.
i dont have a daughter, so i dont really have a girl in this fight, but I think the balance of power should switch more to the female type brain. i say this in spite of the fact that dealing with the female brain drives me nuts. but then again, i possess a Male Brain.
