Leading GOP mag parties like it’s 1899!
October 22, 2009 at 4:46 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in NewsNational Review columnist John Derbyshire doesn’t like that women vote.
No, that’s not a joke. I’ll repeat and rephrase just so there’s no confusion.
A leading columnist for the nation’s leading conservative magazine thinks the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, is a bad thing.
He wrote a book about it.
And National Review, which I repeat is the nation’s leading conservative magazine, is helping him promote it.
I really don’t know what to say other than, um, wow, this maybe explains why a recent poll shows only 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans – fewer than at any time since 1983.
Georgia State University student Emma Harger is less tongue-tied than I.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
In the absence of a male provider, a female is most likely to vote for the candidate that supports the state taking the role of provider.
Therefore as long as women wait longer to get married or don’t get married their voting patterns fuel the growth of the size of the state.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Wait… women can vote? You mean for, like, prom queen and American Idol, right?
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
If the book is consistent with the interview, then Emma Harger has poor reading comprehension skills. Derbyshire does not “think[] the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, is a bad thing.” What he does think is that the result has proven to be a bad thing for conservatives, [Duh!] but that the concept of equity is paramount. That’s his express position. Wishing that Derbyshire was really saying something far more provocative and scorn-worthy doesn’t make it so.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I was going to say what Dash said.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Here’s a worthy burn that doesn’t twist Derbyshire’s words:
“While Derbyshire may think that gender equity is ‘bad for society,’ the fact is that the countries that rank the highest in the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index — meaning they have the most gender equality — tend to also rank the highest on the U.N.’s Human Development Index. While it’s possible that women’s suffrage is ‘bad for conservatism,’ maybe it’s conservatism — not women’s suffrage — that is ‘bad for society.’”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/07/derbyshire-women-vote/
See? That’s how it’s done.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
“countries that rank the highest in the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index…tend to also rank the highest on the U.N.’s Human Development Index.”
Is that because they donated the most to The Human Fund?
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
You don’t want to know how deep this rabbit-hole goes.