Klobuchar: Woman with Buttigieg's record wouldn't be in debate

[thesquanderer]

49. I did not dismiss sexism. But...

...there is also racism and "gayism."

Of course there is sexism. Why has no woman ever been president? Sexism may not be the only reason, but it certainly plays a part... quite obviously, as women didn't even have the right to VOTE until almost 100 years ago. That was surely sexism, and if women couldn't even vote, they were certainly unlikely to be elected president!

And for a long time, candidates were chosen in the proverbial smoke-filled rooms. Essentially, it was the men in power who were selecting the candidates in the first place.

There was also sexism built into the entire culture. It wasn't long ago when so many women were told by their parents that they didn't need to go to college, and their ambition didn't need to consist of anything more than finding a mate and raising children. These women were not kept out of politics by a sexist political establishment, they were kept out because they were brought up even by their mothers to believe it was not their place. A woman president requires not just a political establishment willing to support the candidate AND people willing to vote for her, but also women who want to run, and as a society, for a long time, we were not cultivating that, either.