[net.women] woman as president

randy@umcp-cs.UUCP (07/22/83)

I'm getting a bit tired of all the outrage at the "woman as president"
question.  Sure, we'd all vote for the best PERSON for president.
In fact I'll bet the decision process goes something like this for
many voters:  First check the (say, two) candidates on the issues
most important to you.  Now suppose they stack up about equal on
these.  Then you might move to other means of comparison in order
to make a decision (rumor has it a large portion of Jack Kennedy's
votes were cast on the basis of his good looks).  Now are you willing
to say that the gender of the candidate NEVER enters in at any level?
That all things (besides sex) being (vaguely) equal, you'll flip a coin?

Not me.  I'd vote for the woman.

			- Randy
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