I totally agree with that assessment -- Hillary herself has observed as much ("they [Edwards and Obama] are attacking me because I'm the frontrunner").  But Hillary doesn't have to play the gender card -- the MSM is doing it for her!

Guns ... the great "equalizer" ...

Dear Blonde

I think you let your emotion get in the way of common sense. It is a tried and true axiom that when a group is "oppressed", it's oppression cannot end unless they take over by force or the oppressor relinquish it's power. This has been true in every conflict in the history of man where the oppressor is either the majority or in the case of the minority in South Africa, the most powerful and heinous.  The reason that Malcom X's movement was doomed to failure is because armed resistance by  thirty million against 270 million is IMPOSSIBLE! The only chance we had of being freed was relying on the fact that non -violent resistance would "prick the hearts" of decent whites who would become our ALLIES! This is exactly what happened, whites who had been taught that we were not HUMAN BEINGS came to see us as so! They started to feel compassionately towards blacks and the rest is as they say, history! But make no mistake about it. Blacks in this country would still be slaves if not for the abolitionists, most of whom were WHITE! They are the one's who were instrumental in changing the public's opinion of former chattel. The civil rights movement would have simply been a lot of black people dying like the Sudan, if the white power structure were not willing to "share" or "relinquish" their power! Perhaps by my framing it with an issue with which you are not intimately connected, your emotion can stop blunting your common sense. For a long part of our history after the civil rights movement we were only "equal" because of the "good graces" of white people. That argument could still be made today because the ratio of the populace hasn't changed all that much, although OBVIOUSLY White people have! The same is true for the man vs woman struggle. Except that you are at a further disadvantage than even blacks! Blacks had to be "oppressed" to retard their progress because without oppression there is no difference in the strength or intellect between a black man and a white man. Women however are the weaker sex. While black men with military training and weapons could make armed insurrection very painful for whites, their efforts by sheer force of numbers, would be doomed to defeat. Women on the other hand couldn't even put up "token" resistance.  Most "powerful" women can be brought to tears by someone YELLING at them, how good would 99% of them be in a fight?  Thank Jesus that women are NOT made with combative spirits and are largely weaker and more compassionate than men or there wouldn't be any procreation!  But my over all point is true. Women are equal AFTER the roads and bridges have been built by men and our technological food gathering called supermarkets makes it so you don't have to kill the food you eat. IF someone pulled the plug on technology, you'd see very quickly how equal you are not.  Hmmmm. I think I just got my next movie to write!

Again, so all wives should become mothers, and all mothers should stay home?

That one's good too.

See, we can do it.