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I do think this is a huge factor. My lived experience backs this up and the fact that so many women and mostly girl children were abused by powerful men and there’s literally no consequences backs this up. This country has a very serious mysoginy problem and we still can’t even talk about it without having our experiences dismissed and discounted. It’s undeniable that our system enabled the abuse of those women and children from top to bottom and were still not even allowed to talk about that reality. There’s a reason why most women you know have had an experience of sexual violence and no men that most people know have ever had any consequences for this and every time women try to discuss this online the conversation devolves into whataboutism with guys crying and mobbing on women about some guy they know who falsely accused or some issue they had during a divorce that proves all women are liars. Anyway I know I’ll probably get downvoted because honesty on this stuff always does and I’ll vote for a woman for sure but failing to acknowledge the mysoginist problem this country has is a mistake. At the end of the day the real issue is will a candidate who is actually popular with the people be allowed to make it through the corrupt DNC’s primaries?
I agree it's definitely large factor but I argue that it's not insurmountable within my lifetime.
https://www.genderontheballot.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-GOTB-Deck-c4_release.pdf
Sure, four out of ten know of someone that knows someone that expressed they would never vote for a woman president but at the same time 80 percent surveyed would be open to a women candidate.
Now it's not the time to shy away from having real competition for progressive women and minorities into government. If anything the days shows it's time to keep pushing and making progress.