# So a woman on Facebook said there should be no female Presidents **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 19, 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035 "2015-04-19T12:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/21 "2015-04-19T22:28:58Z")
Stories like this are low hanging fruit. Easy to find, and makes for eyeball popping headlines. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/22 "2015-04-19T22:44:03Z")
Correction: J.David Stern was the owner of the Washington Post in _ **1933** _, but that just shows how things have not changed much from those days. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/23 "2015-04-20T00:05:27Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Go Ape marketing? Now there’s a name that inspires confidence. ## “As long as they spell the name right.” :dubious: Devil’s advocacy! Actually the CNN coverage isn’t as lame as it sounds, which is pretty lame. There was a small segment of the population 30 years who didn’t believe that the country was ready for a female President (e.g. my great Aunt and even she qualified her claim with the word “Yet”). Presumably there’s a sliver possessing this POV today. But they are difficult to find, sort of like the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Still, the notion exists. And methinks it’s best to get it out of the way now. It’s sort of funny that they had to dredge up a publicist in order to attach a warm body to this ludicrous position. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/24 "2015-04-20T02:29:10Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Yes, but then you were so outraged by her, you guys destroyed the entire political party that created her. See, you learned your lesson. We didn’t destroy the party. We just chose to elect it on a system of strict gender parity: one man, one woman. No other political party in Canada has come close to that standard. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/25 "2015-04-20T02:53:33Z")
Isn’t that cute. CNN thinks it’s news. Isn’t that sad. Some people have been fooled. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/26 "2015-04-20T03:35:08Z")
“News” as presented on television is not news; it is bait. The broadcasters are using the promises of titillation, terror, and recreational outrage to capture the attention of millions of people so they can turn around and sell that attention to purveyors of automobiles, cat food, and hemorrhoid cream. NEVER turn to a so-called “news channel” when turning on a television. Terror, titillation, and opportunities for recreational outrage are presented far more effectively from virtually _any_ alternative source. And those don’t stain your soul by deluding you into a belief that you are “keeping yourself informed.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/27 "2015-04-20T04:56:02Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “News” as presented on television is not news; it is bait. The broadcasters are using the promises of titillation, terror, and recreational outrage to capture the attention of millions of people so they can turn around and sell that attention to purveyors of automobiles, cat food, and hemorrhoid cream. And that’s different from the rest of tv how? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/28 "2015-04-20T05:36:05Z")
Plugh! ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/29 "2015-04-20T05:37:51Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Plugh! ```auto You're at Y2. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/30 "2015-04-20T05:39:23Z")
Stop the presses! Message board poster said “Plugh!” Straight Dope Message Board poster **Senegoid** today wrote “Plugh!” in a post. The meaning of the word wasn’t immediately apparent, but was widely thought to be of some importance. Repeated calls to **Senegoid** ’s last known phone were not immediately answered. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/31 "2015-04-20T05:39:30Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > [http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/18/politics/ceo-women-shouldnt-be-president/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/18/politics/ceo-women-shouldnt-be-president/index.html) > > Um, yeah, is there a reason that CNN should cover this story? If I run outside my house and yell the “Kill the Jews!” and a news van is going by, will that make CNN too? They say it’s a “CEO” in order to make the story seem important, but this is a pretty small company. It’s not like the CEO of Wal-mart or Intel said something like this. They might as well have just said, “Well off professional woman doesn’t think a woman should be President.” Well stop the presses! Either lots of women think that, in which case it’s not news, or it’s a very rare view to hold, in which case it’s not news. If someone who had a major influence on the process said this, like Barack Obama, or a Republican politician with clout said it, thus causing a furor, then it would be news. How in the blue hell is it news that someone, somewhere, doesn’t think a woman should be President? Well color me informed! Clickbait. Good for their numbers, just like for any tabloid - er, major news outlet. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/32 "2015-04-20T10:24:51Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And that’s different from the rest of tv how? The rest of TV doesn’t enable you to pretend that you’re being responsible and keeping yourself informed (as I pointed out in my next paragraph). ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/33 "2015-04-20T11:57:42Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Correction: J.David Stern was the owner of the Washington Post in _ **1933** _, but that just shows how things have not changed much from those days. Keep trying. He bought the New York Post in 1933. He never owned the Washington Post. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/34 "2015-04-20T12:22:36Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And that’s different from the rest of tv how? Well… we don’t get to elect the next King of Westeros. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/35 "2015-04-20T12:42:59Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > _ **I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!** _ See, I always think of [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNC4FHR4XLA) when I hear a stupid news story… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035/36 "2015-04-20T20:34:42Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Keep trying. He bought the New York Post in 1933. He never owned the Washington Post. Who cares about the facts? We want a good story. We want outrage! Also you should have included a [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._David_Stern), preferable, unlike mine, to a site with ads. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-woman-on-facebook-said-there-should-be-no-female-presidents/718035.md?page=1)