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The op said "cabal of men". The GOP is presumably 50/50 male/female.

You're really stretching the original comment to try to make it less extreme.




You're splitting hairs to ignore my point. There are also only three women on the RNC leadership and only 10% of the GOP in Congress is female [1] so I don't know where you got 50/50. There is even a long wikipedia article detailing the "War on Women"[2]. Quotes by Obama and the DNC follow similar rhetoric. You can keep calling it "extreme" but it is a very common view.

A group, the large majority of are male, are trying to limit what a women can do with her body. The same thing the OP said.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/upshot/gop-women-in-congre... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Women


> The GOP is presumably 50/50 male/female.

While I can't find good figures on male/female split in the GOP, the fact that the US has overall a slightly lower than 1:1 male/female ratio [0] and the fact that women are substantially more likely to identify with the Democratic Party than the Republican while (including leanings of independents in both cases) men are about equally likely to identify as Republican as Democratic, suggests that that presumption would be wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio

[1] http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/07/a-deep-dive-into-part...




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