Article: GOP as the party of patriarchy

TO THE EDITOR:

"Why aren't women as loyal to another woman as African-Americans are to Obama?" my frustrated wife asked one day.

The first answer is that African-Americans have constant reminders of a history of humiliation; and, though they have heroes to admire, and days - and even a Black History month to commemorate them - outside of the urban ghettos they have little real political clout. But, then again, women have many of the same issues of discrimination, of course.

So that takes us to a deeper question with which my wife agreed: Why does such a large proportion of women continue to buy into the patriarchal social idea that, in effect, men are more valuable ...

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