When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
We should not continue to play politics with women's health.
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
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