{"id":8330,"date":"2015-05-06T21:53:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:11:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:11:29","slug":"will-vagina-voters-devour-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/will-vagina-voters-devour-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Vagina Voters Devour Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wear gloves on Election Day!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fat-O-Sphere&#8221; author Kate Harding announced plans to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.damemagazine.com\/2015\/04\/14\/i-am-voting-my-vagina-hillary-clinton-president\">vote with my vagina<\/a>&#8221; for Hillary Clinton.\u00a0Harding said\u00a0 her voting was guided in part by her difficult menstrual cycles. I wonder who she would vote for if she was suffering from hemorrhoids. (Coincidentally, Mike Huckabee entered the presidential race this week.)<\/p>\n<p>According to her life story in the DameMagazine article,\u00a0Harding&#8217;s political epiphany was also shaped by a male gynecologist who she felt was insufficiently sympathetic to her south-side discomfort.\u00a0\u00a0But, to prove that she is not a man-hater, she stresses: &#8220;I would absolutely not prefer the Sarah Palin of gynecologists over the Barack Obama of gynecologists, for perfectly obvious reasons.&#8221;\u00a0 Personally, I&#8217;ve always preferred to keep all politicians away from my private parts.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyone who thinks that Congress can be trusted with such matters should look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/wash-times-end-tsas-extortion-airport-buffoonery\/\">sordid history of the TSA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than fresh insights on Leviathan and liberty, Harding rests her political philosophy on a self-evident truth that went unmentioned in the Declaration of Independence: &#8220;There has never been a president who knows what it\u2019s like to menstruate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harding declares that, even if she did not like Hillary&#8217;s positions, &#8220;I would probably still vote for her just because she\u2019s a woman.&#8221;\u00a0 She ends her piece with a call for women to send their genitalia to the ramparts: &#8220;I refuse to listen to anyone who warns against \u201cvagina voting,\u201d when I\u2019m 40 years old and have still never had the opportunity to vote with my damned vagina in a general election. American women have been [menstrual] bleeding for over 200 years while men tell us it\u2019s no big deal, and a lot of us have arrived at the point where we just want someone with a visceral, not abstract, concept of what that means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So does Harding believe that, if Hillary is elected, no woman will ever suffer a painful period again? Instead of the 1928 presidential campaign promise of\u00a0&#8220;a chicken in every pot,&#8221; will\u00a0we hear next year that Hillary will banish ragtime blues from the land?<\/p>\n<p>Spiked Online editor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brendanoneill.co.uk\/\">Brendan O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/strong> has an excellent analysis of the would-be vagina stampede for Hillary at <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2015\/05\/03\/meet-the-vagina-voters\">Reason.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This embrace of the gender card by Clinton and her cronies, this move from thinking with their heads to voting with their vaginas, is being celebrated as a great leap forward. It&#8217;s nothing of the sort. It merely confirms the speedy and terrifying shrinking of the political sphere in recent years, with the abstract being elbowed aside by the emotional, and the old focus on ideas and values now playing a very quiet second fiddle to an obsession with identity.***<\/p>\n<p>Would a female leader\u00a0likely\u00a0be less bellicose than recent male presidents?\u00a0 After the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Hillary Clinton only resumed talking to her husband when she phoned him and urged him in the strongest terms to begin bombing Serbia; the next day, Bill Clinton announced that the United States had a \u201cmoral imperative\u201d to stop Serbia&#8217;s Milosevic, and the bombing began.\u00a0 Alexander Cockburn observed in the Los Angeles Times: \u201cIt&#8217;s scarcely surprising that Hillary would have urged President\u00a0 Clinton to drop cluster bombs on the Serbs to defend \u2018our way of life.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0 first lady is a social engineer. She believes in therapeutic policing and the\u00a0 duty of the state to impose such policing. War is more social engineering, \u2018fixitry\u2019 via high explosive, social therapy via cruise missile&#8230;\u00a0 As a tough therapeutic cop, she does not shy away from the most\u00a0 abrupt expression of the therapy: the death penalty.\u201d\u00a0 In the Obama administration, Hillary, Samantha Powers, and Susan Rice have been among the biggest warmongers &#8211; with an unquenchable thirst to bomb Libya, Syria, and other nations.<\/p>\n<p>What is the male equivalent of &#8220;vagina voters&#8221;?\u00a0 Dickheads? <strong>On the bright side,\u00a0maybe one of Hillary&#8217;s zealots will coin a catchy vagina-oriented version of the &#8220;hope and change&#8221; campaign promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the greatest folly of &#8220;vagina voting&#8221; is the presumption that a candidate&#8217;s gender is more important than the fact that they are a politician. Politicians have been renowned for deceit for hundreds of years.\u00a0 Hillary has a\u00a0 long record of lying\u00a0 &#8211; as do many, if not most, of the Republican males in the race. Politicians as a class conspire against the rights and liberties of citizens. And there is no evidence that certain genitalia immunizes a person against Powerlust.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Harding:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wear gloves on Election Day! &#8220;Fat-O-Sphere&#8221; author Kate Harding announced plans to &#8220;vote with my vagina&#8221; for Hillary Clinton.\u00a0Harding said\u00a0 her voting was guided in part by her difficult menstrual cycles. I wonder who she would vote for if she was suffering from hemorrhoids. (Coincidentally, Mike Huckabee entered the presidential race this week.) 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