{"id":17863,"date":"2018-10-10T20:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17863"},"modified":"2018-10-10T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:25:25","slug":"a-useful-metric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/10\/10\/a-useful-metric\/","title":{"rendered":"A Useful Metric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen calls this a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/when-gender-gap-becomes-gender-chasm\"><em>gender chasm<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MaddowBlogChartOfCNNPoll.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17864\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MaddowBlogChartOfCNNPoll.jpg?resize=380%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MaddowBlogChartOfCNNPoll.jpg?w=380&amp;ssl=1 380w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MaddowBlogChartOfCNNPoll.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MaddowBlogChartOfCNNPoll.jpg?resize=224%2C150&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MaddowBlogChartOfCNNPoll.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll call it a useful measurement of just how little men generally understand the sexual harassment problems of women. By nearly two to one, women disapprove of the Republican Party and intend to vote for the Democrats in the mid-terms, while men actually intend to vote for the Republicans by a 5 point margin.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, for those men who think there&#8217;s nothing to the plaints of &#8220;their womenfolk,&#8221; there&#8217;s this video, which had my Arts Editor and I howling with laughter, available to instruct you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mX5w_SjGSUs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mX5w_SjGSUs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you think she&#8217;s just\u00a0 a freak or whatever, think again. <strong>Every sexual harassed women would love to do what she did<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As the Republicans continue to try to cover up their behavior during the Kavanaugh hearings, I suspect the numbers will just get worse for them. Stubbornly stupid is no way to live a life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen calls this a gender chasm: I&#8217;ll call it a useful measurement of just how little men generally understand the sexual harassment problems of women. By nearly two to one, women disapprove of the Republican Party and intend to vote for the Democrats in the mid-terms, while men actually \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/10\/10\/a-useful-metric\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17865,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17863\/revisions\/17865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}