On 2008-05-14, whisky-dave <whisky-dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> But I do wonder just how many followed the politics and that goes for
the
> men too.
It would appear that women were much more interested in
politics immediately prior to getting the vote (and, later, having their
age of majority equalised), and in the decade or two which followed.
It's only later, once they began to take it for granted, that they
became more apathetic and their awareness of political issues declined.
> But what I was concidering was why (remember most women of the voting
> age were married) the women would choose the opposite party from their
> husband considering they'd be sharing the same economic fortunes or
> lack of them in the same house and in the same area.
Women had very different concerns in that period because they
weren't sharing equal social status, which transformed the way other
cir***stances affected them. For instance, when their finances were
still largely under the control of men, they'd be likely to feel the
pinch if economic slowdown rather sooner than men did.
> Oh and one other minor point what makes you think 'gay' women
> were excluded from the 2000 women interviewed, according to your stats
> ~200 of them should have been queer.
> conspiracy theory:- Maybe rather than admit they were gay they said
they
> fancied the Mr. C rather than admitting they actually fancied Mrs C.
I'm not suggesting that queer people aren't taken into account
(perhaps I should have phrased it more clearly the first time) so much
as that their queerness isn't taken into account. Pollsters don't ask
female voters "Which politicians do you fancy?", they ask "Which of
these three men do you fancy?" Hetero***uality is still assumed. One can
say "I don't fancy any of them," but there is no box for "I wouldn't
fancy any of them no matter what they looked like."
> I bet there's more Polish people in crewe than 'gays in crewe.
No gay Polish people?
As it happens, that's what the Polish prime minister has tried
to tell us, which, given how it affects his policies, would seem likely
to precipitate a pro****tionately large migration on the part of such
individuals.
>> He's clean cut
> Is that some sort of cir***cision joke.
You know, sometimes a Tory politician is just a Tory
politician. ;)
> Is that really the reason why women vote politicians in I'd hope not.
I think 'he seems nice' probably is a factor for a lot of women
- the male equivalent would be 'he seems like a decent bloke'. It's
distressingly common.
> And that's the 2nd[2] bloody word you've used that starts with a "s"
> and there's no details on in wiki.
Sorry! Do you not have a dictionary?
Jennie
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