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[lumberjack_jeff]

220. You, like most DU'ers, find it easy to explain why men are in jail. They're criminals, duh.

But we all pretty much agree that blacks are in jail because of racism.

In reality, men are in jail largely for the same reason blacks are; discrimination.

And gender trumps race, i.e. Crystal Mangum is NOT in jail.

But we're digressing here.

There's an element of having it both ways going on in the upthread argument. "Don't raise the price of contraception or you'll incur the wrath of 54% of the voters!" followed by "The fact that most elected officials are men proves that women don't have any power as voters! The patriarchy makes some women vote the wrong way."

Which is it? "I am woman, hear me roar!" or "Won't some knight in shining armor come rescue me from myself"?

The fact that you may or may not agree with the other women who collectively make up the dominant voting bloc of US politics is immaterial. We have the elected officials that women chose.