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0 pointsshuntress5y ago0 comments

Not a bad idea but it probably depends on a level of convenience and ease of access to voting that does not seem to exist currently.

Unrelated side note: when you are talking about a hypothetical politician, be aware of your choice of pronoun.

You might be the type of person who picks between he/she with a precise 50/50 split but I'm going to assume you are not that type of person. Similar to the way you seem to have assumed that if a person is a politician they are also a man.

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sooheon5y ago

Women aren't 50% of politics. It's not a terrible Bayesian prior to say he. (as someone who says "they" for hypothetical humans)

yaj545y ago

But when done systemically it likely creates the expectation that politics is done only or mostly by men, therefore discouraging women from entering politics now and in the future. Which, I would argue, is a substantial net negative.

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someguyorother5y ago

FWIW, English is my second language, and my first language has grammatical genders that don't have anything to do with real genders. We were also taught that "he" is the default pronoun in English.

I guess some of that bleeds through: that I use "he" without reflecting on it because it wouldn't carry an implication of actual gender in my first language. I am definitely not assuming that politics is a men's only club.

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