On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Julio Huato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: > >> I don't know why PK views misogyny as a greater problem than racism >> against Blacks or as persisting longer than racism. How can anyone >> measure such things? <.. > > Well, you can estimate these effects. > > Take wealth, income, or consumption measures for the U.S. (some > available on the Census Bureau's web site). Then isolate gender from > race effects, controlling for all else you can control for. Voilá. > Race is a class marker, much more than gender.
I am with Julio all the way. Take the number of people who say in the polls "I'll never vote for Obama because he doesn't share my values" in the context of Rev. Wright. The way I see it, these people would never have voted for Obama anyway and they were merely looking for an excuse. From my casual observation, it does seem like race matters a whole lot more than gender. For the symbolic value alone, I hope Obama does win in November. It is lucky that he has such a mediocre opponent. I hope he can at least count on the miniscule PEN-L constituency. -raghu. -- "Sits he on never so high a throne, a man still sits on his bottom." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
