There's a line in an essay I otherwise really agree with about how the writer doesn't agree with blanket "we need more women in politics" statements because those get us more Marjorie Taylor-Greenes and Lauren Boeberts and I think that's still putting it on women to save us.
We do need more women in politics, full stop. Not because women are going to be better than men, not because women are going to save the country, but because *women are half the country.*
I mean, maybe an individual female politician is someone who will advocate for what we'd hope she'd advocate for, or maybe she's just as bad as the white male politicians around her.
But the idea that white men should continue to rule the rest of us by default, and we shouldn't focus on trying to make sure representative bodies are actually representative unless the non-white-men in them clear some bar of being a reformer is... treating white men as default.
Like, YES, we should resist the idea that Women Are Magic, or that white women make a group diverse. And I think that, in focusing in getting more women into elected office, we should be focusing on women of color.
But I also think that it's useful to break the hegemonic white male deathgrip on power purely for its own sake.
Like, a ruling body that's supposed to represent a diverse population shouldn't be comprised of people from a single demographic, and I feel like that's true and important even before we get to "but what are their platforms?"
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