Listen Up, Men: Here’s How Romney’s Views on Women Will Make Your Life More Difficult
Listen Up, Men: Here’s How Romney’s Views on Women Will Make Your Life More Difficult
This “holy crap do men not get it?” epiphany isn’t just me gearing up to be a Cathy cartoon for Halloween; according to God of Polling Data Analysis Nate Silver, if the election were held today and only men voted, it would be a landslide Romney victory. If only women voted, Obama would win like a doped up Lance Armstrong. This election is shaping up to showcase the one of the largest gender gaps ever in a Presidential election — but why? Mitt Romney has made it clear that at the very least, his administration would prioritize limiting women’s rights over their own bodies, fight equal pay laws, and have a big male har har har about issues near and dear to women of all stripes. I suspect that the man/woman Romney/Obama gap can be explained, in part, by the fact that Romney is just a creepy guy, and women are generally better at registering creeps, since we practice noticing creeps every day of our adult lives. But at least part of the disparity between male and female political affiliations must be due to a gap in empathy, or men not fully understanding the immediacy and urgency of what Romney’s enacted political stances will do to women. So let’s talk about what they’d do to men.