I've never identified with "Women's" anything. Yes, I am woman! But Women's groups make me very uncomfortable. I don't understand the group-think. I apparently don't represent well. In fact, it's really irritating when people assume I enjoy certain things or voted a certain way or support a certain policy because I am female. More times than not I am actually against or at least not fanatically "for" the women's "agenda".
Recently a friend posted something to encourage young women to register to vote and to then, of course, vote. Her reason was so that women would vote in women and then there would be no sexual predators in office. I highly encourage all citizens to vote. Occasionally I am disenchanted with the process, but I still believe you can't win if you don't try. However the idea that 1) only women voters will vote for women 2) only elected women will be either able to keep out sexual predators or not be predators themselves - it's flawed.
Men and women vote for both men and women. Elected officials of either sex can and do frown upon sexual predators. Women can be predators, too.
Not to dismiss this particular issue, but to make it a woman vs. man thing, is messed up. And to presume that women voting is the answer, is just odd to me. Why do you presume to know how any woman will vote based on her gender alone? or man for that matter?
It was amusing to me during the Trump - Clinton election how shocked the media was that there were women out there - white, educated women, even - who did NOT vote for Clinton. Some even voted for Trump! Why were they so shocked? (I didn't vote for either one of them, by the way.) Clinton does not represent all women, she is just one. Just like Trump does not represent all men. That's like assuming that people vote in a completely one-dimensional way. There are way too many issues and factors involved to vote based on gender, race, eye color or whatever. Do you really think we're all stupid? Yeah, probably.
Anyway, I am a woman; we are not all the same. I am much more complicated than you seem to think.
