MPs more likely to respond to women's requests, driven by female legislators bias against men

[laughing dog]

Non. I didn't say it didn't matter in some general sense. I said it didn't matter for the point I was illustrating, and it doesn't.....

Whether I believed it or not is irrelevant to the issue. What other readers may or may not have understood is irrelevant to the issue. What is the issue is what you did. The fact you admit you knew it was sarcasm and that I did not believe it means you knew that I was saying it did not explain anything.

I do thank you for stylistic and sarcastic apology. It provided even more evidence and insight into the lack of intellectual honesty in your position.

 

[Emily Lake]

In particular, I don't know why the first author (Gabriele Magni) is surprised, considering his own research shows that American voters prefer black women and Asian women as political candidates, compared to white men.

Overall, in our sample of almost 2,000 voters, a Black woman was preferred over a white man by 3.7 percentage points and an Asian woman by 2.4 percentage points. Almost every demographic group we polled showed a preference for Black and Asian women, all else being equal. ).

Hmmmmm.. So, the voting public prefers women of color over white males for elected office, and YET 65% of elected officials are white males while only 3.5% are women of color. I guess that shows how much the US is not a democracy, but an oligarchy whose leaders are chosen by self serving white supremacist males.

Possible. Also possible that there's some selection bias involved, and the people who are taking the survey aren't inherently representative of the voting population as a whole.

 

[Emily Lake]

But it still would mean that most people want elected officials in the current context that are not the white males that continue to dominate the available choices. Thus, it still shows a that the choices are being dictated by a non-representative minority who prefer white males.

It's also probably worth separating current preference regarding future state from current state. I think it's entirely plausible that widespread perspectives have shifted in recent years. The current state is predominantly old white men. The preference for a future state seems to be fewer old white men.