Well, ok boys, you can read it to.
But just between us girls, let's not get used, ok? With all due respect to a woman who I could never agree with but who has accomplished a lot, don't you find the suggestion that us girls are so wishy-washy that we're happy to trail along behind any one of us that gets plucked out of the pack extremely insulting? I know I do.
When women were fighting for the right to vote, one of the arguments favored especially by Britain's Conservative Party (but picked up by many anti-women's suffrage activists) was that women were just too silly and emotional to be counted on to make serious political decisions. The argument went that women would not vote on the issues but rather some frivolous factor, and that their votes would be enough to effectively change the outcome of elections, thereby leaving the public with a government not up to the job of leading. (As you might imagine, informal polling indicated that the majority of women would not vote for the Tories, hence their argument women would pick a bad government.) Some proponents of this viewpoint believed women were just too dippy to be trusted to vote on the issues, and others tried to couch it in "oh, don't you worry your pretty little head" terms.
Crazy, huh? Except, it seems like these notions still exist. Women may have the vote, but somewhere, a lot of people have decided that women would throw ideology out the window and vote for a woman - just because. They were wrong during the suffrage movement - show them they're wrong now, too.
