Do you think that by being a man, the world’s powerful men somehow care more about me? Does a society run by men automatically equal to a society run for men? Where all it’s privileges trickle down, or transfer to me, through the fact I also have a penis? Do I now qualify for distinct laws, positions and pay rises, by virtue of my gender? Am I part of some club of which I am not aware – with secret handshakes involving our dicks – to grant all men access to the combined power of ‘male privilege’? “Ugh. Men!” Again and again I hear gender is irrelevant. But then sometimes, for so many, my gender seems enough to condemn me? Like it tells you everything you need to know. But does it? Is Joe Biden having a penis, more important that his actual policy? Ought we to look past what is between our politician’s legs, to see instead see what is between their ears, in their hearts, and within their character? If your political world view is all about counting the penises of our politicians, I would kindly suggest its time to go back to school. These playground politics assume that such a magical appendage must grant all men a life in the easy lane; where society’s hoops miraculously vanish, and all it’s roads are paved in gold. But is the world really that simple? And why, when it comes to political power, do we only discuss the gender of those in The White House, and never the gender of the electorate who put them there? Yes. You’d be right to say that men sit in the seats of power. But so too you’d be right to say that as a voting bloc, for decades, it has been women who have put them there. You wouldn’t believe it, but the most powerful voting bloc in America is white women. And in fact white men are as unlikely to vote as Black women. So if you want change, if you are upset our outraged by the things you read on this page, then is it time we learnt from the women in our lives? Vote for change. So where is the electoral voice of American men? And more importantly, what is it they want to vote for? ~ Images by, Gradienta, Kiwi Hug, Ariele Bonte, Voter turnout and Gender 

2023-07-10