| Mr Khan said: As an older woman, she has the advantage of it being harder for them to get misogynist memes to stick, i think. I mean, in terms of "demographics which are distrusted", we got a black man elected, why not an old white woman? |
For one thing having a black man was "transformational". It got non-whites generally and especially blacks very excited. Black participation for probably the first time ever was higher than their share of the general population. Nobody is going to get excited about an old white woman.
I know the conventional wisdom of identity politics is that, well, if blacks get excited by a black guy then women will get excited about a woman. But I don't think the idea that women are going to vote for a woman holds water. Women are already more of the voting electorate than men, but men are overwhelmingly overrepresented in office. And in my experience women fucking hate other women, especially one who is doing better than they are. No woman in politics is going to be the avatar for all women. They are just too biologically envious of one another.
