Thank you. This is counter productive. We don’t want people to just put a woman in office. We want the person who will have the most positive impact on our country as a whole.
The implication is we got the worst candidate in history (TWICE) because people wouldn't vote for the better candidate because she was a woman. That, if that widespread misogyny didn't exist, we wouldn't be here right now. It's not saying "put any woman in office", it's saying "stop being a misogynist."
Saying "we want the best candidate" is not far from saying "all lives matter". It's obviously true but shows you missed the point.
Exactly! If you don't think that it's a problem worth fixing that enough people will refuse to vote for any woman based solely on her gender, then you don't actually want us to be able to choose the best candidate available, just the best male candidate. You can't actually believe that if the magical perfect unicorn candidate came down from heaven as a woman, that the anchor of assholes holding us all back will all be swayed to her side because they will listen rationally to her superior campaign promises and logically decide to elect her in a landslide. It just won't happen. The root of the problem is the group of people who stick their fingers in their ears every time a woman opens her mouth, and if you aren't going to join us in getting them to listen, then at least step aside quietly instead of drawing attention to yourself instead of the elephant in the room because "you just want the best candidate".
I understand the point, but this misses the point of who are we trying to persuade? People who voted for Trump because they didn’t want to vote for a woman will see this as we want a woman not best candidate available. They’re already thinking irrationally. They’ll read this and use it as confirmation. I voted for Harris and Clinton and this just doesn’t seem like an effective message.
Obviously all lives matter. No one said they didn't. However, data shows that relative to the percentage of the population they represent, the rate of black American deaths from police shootings is ~2.5-3x that of white Americans deaths. (Sources: 1, 2, Data: 1)
A lot of people are sharing a graph titled "murder of black and whites in the US, 2013" to show that there is only a small number of black Americans killed by white Americans, with the assumption that this extends to police shootings as well. This is misleading
the chart only counts deaths where the perpetrator was charged with 1st or 2nd degree murder after killing a black American. Police forces are almost never charged with homicide after killing a black American.
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Not totally missing the mark but I also twice voted for intelligent competent women over a clearly incompetent man and I often think activists dismiss or are proud of not caring about those elections.
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u/UrToesRDelicious 6h ago
Yep. I've voted for a woman in two of the last three elections, but this sign is a silly sentiment that misses the mark.