Ok so it's not because he's black it's because she's a woman.

...

tsk tsk ...

Ducking and diving and changing the subject so soon?


Seriously though, It has struck me that the issue of gender hasn't attracted the same attention.

Why?

I wanted to see how long it would take for somebody to say something.

Are these the answers ...

Because women aren't a minority in the same way that black people are - so it would be political suicide?

Because the American people are a bit too grown up for it (as is hopefully the case with Obama) so it would be political suicide?

Because there is less of a sense of risk in employing a woman to do the job than in employing a black person in the minds of the average joe - so there is less latent insecurity to put pressure on?

Maybe people still don't take the issue of womens equality as seriously as they could.

All four answers probably contain an element of truth and there are probably other reasons too.

But generally, I think that Hillary comes across as sexless. She isn't condemned for flirting with the public, or for showing her cleavage etc (the usual sexist shite) ...

Noone is bothered either way. People are grappling with a three way conundrum - Hillary, Barack and the race issue.

Maybe the real reason it hasn't occupied peoples minds in the same way is that Noone has tried to attribute the suffragette movement to a man during this campaign.

I mean hey - wasn't it a man who gave women the vote ... it was the husbands of the women involved who gave them permission to protest and supported their right to attend suffragette coffee mornings ...


So by Hillary's logic we don't need a woman president, because we need an enabler and not a campaigner ...

... wasn't that her point? ...