Perspective: The hazards of asking male candidates whether they’d choose a female running mate
Former vice president Joe Biden and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. By Monica Hesse Monica Hesse Style reporter Email Bio Follow Columnist March 24 at 6:00 AM Lately, a fashionable question for male 2020 presidential contenders requires them to pretend they’ve already won the Democratic nomination and they’re now on the hunt for a running mate.
Beto O’Rourke: “It would be very difficult not to select a woman with so many extraordinary women who are running right now.”Joe Biden reportedly considered preempting the question entirely by planning to simultaneously jump into the race and announce his running mate as Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia gubernatorial election but became a liberal shooting star. A spokesman for Biden denied that such a plan was ever hatched.
Why are men being asked whether they’d choose a female VP instead of being asked whether they’d be a woman’s VP? Unelectable, in a way that either pretends to be reasoned, i.e. I just don’t think the armed forces are ready for a female commander in chief without a male running mate. Or, in a way that goes straight to the bottom: What if they both have PMS at the same time, heh heh?
Not that these men don’t deserve to run. Not that they couldn’t each bring attention and elbow grease to important issues. Not that a candidate’s gender should be any voter’s deciding factor in casting a ballot.
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