Sexism During Presidential Campaign

[Steve40]

I sent this letter to the editor of our local news paper. I modified it to eliminate a reference to a candidate in keeping with forum rules. Feel free to use the concept or word and send a letter in to your local paper.

To The Editor

Greg _____ in the article entitle “_____ dated ______, should not be astonished that elements of sexism would work against a candidate. Pope Paul VI predicted a degradation in respect for women with the wide spread use of contraceptives in his Encyclical Letter Humanea Vitea (of Human Life) in 1968. I believe this prediction has come to fruition in our time.

A lack of respect for women’s fertility in the wide spread use of contraceptives has degraded respect for women in general, as objects of sexual pleasure. Contraceptives make what should be a self giving act, into a recreation self serving act. This, along with the proliferation of pornography and the sex industry, can only hurt a women’s chance for being President.

What Mr. ______ does not understand is that perverts vote, and today our society is very perverted.

Steve _______
Of ________

 

[rwoehmke]

Since there is only one woman currently in the running for president, what does this have to do with such a woman’s attitude to contraception and abortion, etc? When it comes to any woman running for any office, the fact that she is a woman has no influence on my voting decision at all. I have a wife of over forty years from whom I learned by experience that a woman does not have to “think like a man” to be wise and capable of leading and making decisions. Maybe I am missing the point and it isn’t really sexism being denigrated, but the widespread use of contraceptives.

 

[Steve40]

Since there is only one woman currently in the running for president, what does this have to do with such a woman’s attitude to contraception and abortion, etc? When it comes to any woman running for any office, the fact that she is a woman has no influence on my voting decision at all. I have a wife of over forty years from whom I learned by experience that a woman does not have to “think like a man” to be wise and capable of leading and making decisions. Maybe I am missing the point and it isn’t really sexism being denigrated, but the widespread use of contraceptives.

You don’t sound like a pervert who objectifies women so it may be difficult for you to relate. The more women are objectified within our society the less likely I think men will vote them into a higher office.

Wide spread contraception and the objectification is sexism in it’s worst form. We need to become the champions against sexism by relating it to the spread of contraception and porn.