CNN removes story about women’s hormones affecting voting

[fleur-de-lisa]

Thursday, Oct 25, 2012
By Natasha Lennard
Posted on Salon.com



Following widespread ridicule, CNN has removed a story published online Wednesday about whether hormones could influence female voting choices.

The piece by Elizabeth Landau looked at unpublished research that suggested female voting behavior was affected by whether a woman was ovulating on Election Day, or as our own Jillian Rayfield put it Wednesday, whether “their lady parts might be doing the voting for them.” As Poynter noted Thursday, CNN has taken down the post an put up a notice stating that “after further review it was determined that some elements of the story did not meet the editorial standards of CNN.”

Poynter notes that CNN has not elaborated on which precise elements in Landau’s post fell short of their standards.


http://www.salon.com/2012/10/25/cnn_removes_story_about_womens_hormones_affecting_voting/

[Fresh_Start]

1. because god knows testosterone doesn't affect men at all....

as they slobbered all over their Palin fantasies while they fondle their guns

[Angry Dragon]

8. +6,866

[Jennicut]

12. Right. Men have hormones too.

[Arugula Latte]

15. Exactly. I'm so effing sick of the one-sidedness of this line of thinking.

"Men Prone to Rage and Agression -- Should They Be Allowed To Drive?" ... Yeah, we'll never see a story like that on CNN.

[joycejnr]

2. If there are any "natural cycles" we should worry about, it's the weather...

...a hurricane threat from the Caribbean may hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Election Day.

Few voters mean Republican wins.

[LibertyLover]

19. Umm, not quite -

Sandy, the hurricane you are referring to, is supposed to hit the east coast sometime between Sunday, October 28th and Monday, October 29th. Election Day is November 6th. The spot it is going to come ashore is still undetermined due to several factors as I understand it, including positioning of some high and low pressure fronts. The European model, which for some reason this year has been more accurate than some of the other models, suggests that landfall could be somewhere on the Delmarva Peninsula. Since I live in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, I'm watching Sandy's path carefully. So, while Sandy will not be hitting on Election Day, it is always possible that widespread and long-lasting power outages caused by wind and rain could still be affecting voting on November 6th. That's why my husband and I are going to vote early this weekend.

[TwilightGardener]

3. That's so ridiculously offensive--I can't believe they posted it.

[win_in_06]

9. Hard to believe that the article was by a woman and the study was commissioned by women. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

13. What's their angle, I wonder--women are too hormonally hysterical

to be allowed to vote? Why would this even be a study?

[Posteritatis]

17. There's plenty of reasons to study most things

It tends to be the media that carries them to ridiculous conclusions, like this article was striving to do. The Daily Mail's the undisputed champion of doing that, but CNN gives them a run for their money fairly regularly.

[antigone382]

18. If the article discussed research on male cyclical hormonal fluctuations (they do have them)...

...then perhaps it would present an interesting picture of what we are discovering on the impact hormones have on behavior. I can understand how an individual study would focus solely on one sex or the other. I cannot understand how an article on its findings would neglect to mention a parallel effect in men. Acting as if women are somehow uniquely vulnerable to hormonal fluctuations is just patently ignorant. It is no secret that male behavior and attitudes are affected to some degree by both by their own hormones and even by the hormones of the women around them.

[Posteritatis]

16. CNN being CNN, I can totally believe they posted it. (nt)

[Supersedeas]

22. right up So-so-bad's alley

[riverwalker]

4. jaysus forkin criss!!

Am I in a time warp? Is this freakin 1970 again? Damn, I am too old to be fighting this battle again.

[nolabear]

5. OFFS...

I wish they'd get the fuck over that shit. Yeah yeah we got hormones. I got hormones, you got hormones, all God's children got hormones. Deal.

[Odin2005]

6. "hormones" is the modern version of the misogynist meme of "irrational women".

[DawgHouse]

7. Well, fiddle dee dee!

[alsame]

10. Yes, it's amazing we can function at all. nt

[Sivafae]

11. I won't worry my pretty little head over who to vote for then.

I'm in the grips of HORMONES!

[PatSeg]

14. "Unpublished research"???

Gee I wonder why.

Obviously they never should have given us unpredictable, emotional women the right to vote in the first place!

Yet another reason I NEVER watch CNN.

[niyad]

20. having read the bio of the study's author, I am not surprised. some of her other studies include

things about women choosing sexy cads as good dads, and choosing careers based on how many males are in those careers.

[MrsBrady]

21. they just are lucky I don't find some Republican to slap

when it's that time of the month.

But I'm voting Dem, no matter what....

what a freaking load of crap