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ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
Wed May 23, 2018, 07:15 AM May 2018

Wonkette: Indiana Law Professor Deeply Saddened Democrats Voting For So Many Ladies :(

Democratic-voting ladies of Indiana, Indiana University law professor Kenneth Dau-Schmidt is very disappointed in you and all the reverse sexism you are doing to poor male candidates, what just can’t get a break these days!

In a letter to the editors of Bloomington’s Herald Times, Dau-Schmidt explained that the slate of female candidates who had bested male competitors (and even male incumbents) was a “very sad achievement” because it showed that women were out there just voting for female candidates rather than for the “best” candidates, because they are sexist jerks who hate men. Or something.

I was very disturbed by the results of the recent Democratic primary. I was glad to see women candidates do well, especially those who were accomplished and who had worked hard. But the fact that all women candidates won, even against accomplished male incumbents, was troubling.

At the state delegate level, combining the city’s districts 1 and 2, women candidates averaged 1,779 votes while the men averaged 696. All of the male candidates received less votes than any of their female rivals except the sitting mayor and Alphonso Manns. Clearly, hundreds of Democratic women are voting for female candidates based on their gender and have been encouraged in this regard by the Democratic Women’s Caucus. Ann Birch of the League of Women Voters said that the women’s success was the result of “nurture rather than nature.”

I agree that discrimination is an unnatural act and that the Democratic Women’s Caucus has taught many Democratic women to discriminate on the basis of gender. What a sad achievement


So sad! But sadder still is that he does not exactly have his facts right. In both instances in which a male incumbent was running for a seat in the House, he won — including one instance in which a woman, Sue Spicer, was running against male incumbent André Carson. The only woman who ousted an incumbent male candidate was actually a Republican candidate for state Senate, Linda Rogers.

What are the odds, do you think, that if all the male candidates won their primaries, Mr. Dau-Schmidt would suggest that men had cruelly conspired to vote for men instead of women? What are the odds that he would suggest that those men were less competent than their competitors? I am going to guess that they are not very good.

In fact, he probably would not even notice. It would just be our glorious meritocracy at work!

Now, I’m not gonna lie. If a man and a woman are running for office and I like them both equally, I’m going with the woman (and if it’s all men, I’m going with the candidate who isn’t white). If it’s a Democratic primary, odds are that is the case. It’s not any more insidious than if — out of two candidates I liked equally — I picked the man. I suppose, in these instances, it is up to male candidates to work to appeal to me more than their female opponents, just as they must try to appeal to me more than other men running for the same office. For what it is worth, fellas, I think Medicare for All, ending at-will employment, unions, and publicly funded college are extremely sexxxy.



https://wonkette.com/634183/indiana-law-professor-deeply-saddened-democrats-voting-for-so-many-ladies
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Wonkette: Indiana Law Professor Deeply Saddened Democrats Voting For So Many Ladies :( (Original Post) ehrnst May 2018 OP
It shows no such Cha May 2018 #1
I am shocked. SHOCKED. forgotmylogin May 2018 #23
And this guy is a law professor........ CatMor May 2018 #2
There were lawyers in the KKK. It doesn't innoculate you against bigotry. ehrnst May 2018 #3
I wonder which side he sides with in those areas? LiberalFighter May 2018 #7
As a professor... ehrnst May 2018 #11
Hey man Glamrock May 2018 #4
Wimminses voting! Scairey! Scairey! struggle4progress May 2018 #5
That was so awesome! I looked it up and saved it...made in 1928. Some stuff never changes. I used Demsrule86 May 2018 #17
What a dense little man. Guess the shoe on his other foot is a tad bit uncomfortable. Guilded Lilly May 2018 #6
All of the male candidates received less votes than any of their female rivals except ... knightmaar May 2018 #8
Thank you. volstork May 2018 #10
Mine, too. wryter2000 May 2018 #29
Thank you. volstork May 2018 #24
I voted for all women in the final Dem primary vlyons May 2018 #9
Now where did I put that very tiny violin? nt Ferrets are Cool May 2018 #12
My guess is the reason for their success is... KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #13
So when HE votes for all-male candidates, is he out there voting just because they are white males? Honeycombe8 May 2018 #14
For men like this one...the 'best person' is always a white male. They are bigots through and Demsrule86 May 2018 #16
I love Wonkette so much. Demsrule86 May 2018 #15
Logic and causality were apparently not taught... malthaussen May 2018 #18
Democratic women are going to take back this country workinclasszero May 2018 #19
Voting for women is easy! Grins May 2018 #20
I'm sure they'd love to repeal the 19th amendment IronLionZion May 2018 #21
Bless his heart mercuryblues May 2018 #22
ROFL RandomAccess May 2018 #25
Last I checked women outnumber men so all things being equal one might expect them to be PoliticAverse May 2018 #26
Call the Waaambulance! muntrv May 2018 #27
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like discrimination." The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #28

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
2. And this guy is a law professor........
Wed May 23, 2018, 07:23 AM
May 2018

I'm really surprised he teaches law and yet feels that way. What does he think when it's a female against a male in the court room.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
3. There were lawyers in the KKK. It doesn't innoculate you against bigotry.
Wed May 23, 2018, 07:24 AM
May 2018

And he doesn't teach criminal law:


Labor Law I (B663)
Employment Law (B719)
Antitrust Law I (B729)
Employee Benefits Law (B742)
Seminar in Law and Economics (L713)



https://www.law.indiana.edu/about/people/bio.php?name=dau-schmidt-kenneth-g
 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
11. As a professor...
Wed May 23, 2018, 09:49 AM
May 2018

He is not supposed to side with any.

However, he certainly isn't opposed to voicing biased views.

Glamrock

(11,781 posts)
4. Hey man
Wed May 23, 2018, 07:26 AM
May 2018

Try to keep in mind not all white male Hoosiers are douche bags. This one considers himself a feminist.

Demsrule86

(68,347 posts)
17. That was so awesome! I looked it up and saved it...made in 1928. Some stuff never changes. I used
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:14 AM
May 2018

show my Biology students" Inherit the Wind" with Spencer Tracy...about the Scopes trial. And 70 years later we still argue over evolution and of course woman's rights. Thanks for this.

knightmaar

(748 posts)
8. All of the male candidates received less votes than any of their female rivals except ...
Wed May 23, 2018, 09:42 AM
May 2018

*fewer

Mr. Fancy Law Professor.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
13. My guess is the reason for their success is...
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:00 AM
May 2018

they worked harder to get the votes. More leg work and meetings and better web presence.

A lot of men have been presumptuous about winning and are paying the price.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
14. So when HE votes for all-male candidates, is he out there voting just because they are white males?
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:04 AM
May 2018

Of course he is. But he doesn't acknowledge that.

So we will say what he says: It's not about gender. We're voting for the best person for the job. This one happens to be female!

Demsrule86

(68,347 posts)
16. For men like this one...the 'best person' is always a white male. They are bigots through and
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:09 AM
May 2018

through and consider the fear behind his words...he fears a level playing field...and not enjoying his white male privilege anymore.

malthaussen

(17,065 posts)
18. Logic and causality were apparently not taught...
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:16 AM
May 2018

... where Mr Dau-Schmidt went to school. Or perhaps he just didn't absorb them.

-- Mal

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
19. Democratic women are going to take back this country
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:16 AM
May 2018

from deplorable male idiots.

You go right ahead and fear them prof. Can't believe a neanderthal like this guy is a law professor.

Grins

(7,132 posts)
20. Voting for women is easy!
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:20 AM
May 2018

I have no problem voting for women (and I conceal-carry a penis all the time). It's easy to do - just look for the "D" after their name!

I got on a rant a long time ago with friends around the time the R's in Congress set up a committee on what should be in the health care bill to replace Obamacare. Its composition? Thirteen staunch conservatives and ardent foes of the Affordable Care Act — and not one female. Not. One. All of them were male.

If that committee were just majority female and politically balanced, seen from their eyes there there would have been a world of difference on women's health, abortions, contraception, mammograms, pre-natal care, maternity, child care for working people (both M&F), insurance rates and coverage, etc.

And all of that would have flowed down and benefited all Americans and businesses too.

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
22. Bless his heart
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:44 AM
May 2018

This letter was supposedly writen by a progressive and feminist? For me, this letter makes it abandantly clear why women would vote for women. They no longer trust the male candidates to protect their rights.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
25. ROFL
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:54 PM
May 2018

This is hilarious:

But the fact that all women candidates won, even against accomplished male incumbents, was troubling.


First, Wonkette pointed out it isn't true.

BUT IF IT WERE --

How many times --. No make that how many decades (and millennia for any places where women could vote prior to the early 20th Century, and I know of none off-hand) -- have ALL THE MEN candidates won, even against accomplished better qualified women???????

He's a pitiful creature, sad example of modern manhood.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
26. Last I checked women outnumber men so all things being equal one might expect them to be
Wed May 23, 2018, 01:01 PM
May 2018

the majority of candidates chosen.

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