Is there anybody here voting Clinton because she is a woman?

It's such a gross question on their part because it collapses the perfectly valid idea of representation down into this ugly self-serving fantasy of "reverse discrimination."

There are plenty of people who are concerned with top line representation (i.e. the disproportionately small percentages of women in office relative to the makeup of the US population) regardless of party. Of the people who care about the underrepresentation of women, though, I imagine almost all if not all will vote for only those women whose politics and/or values match their own. So, you can hope for greater participation by women in all parties, but if you're a Democrat, you're not likely to vote for a female Relublican candidate, especially ones who hold views you consider anti-woman.

So, either representation matters or it doesn't, and many Hillary supporters feel that it is important that women are able to access the presidency. However, what the Bernouts ignored was the fact that the particular candidate matters more. Most of us wouldn't vote for Sarah Palin, because her views on women's issues were highly regressive.

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