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		speeder on Oct 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shame on Y Combinator I am not even living in US, but wanted to give you some data to show that you are wrong. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/death... Also, last I checked women had plenty of voice in the last 40 years... beside being the majority of the voters (and thus always pandered to by default), US have no-fault divorce (something that usually only women want, most no-fault divorce are initiated by women), abortion is legal (Brazil for example where I live, abortion is still mostly illegal), Title IX exists, VAWA exists, more women than men finish college, female labour participation is higher than male, and so on...

spraak on Oct 18, 2016 [–]

None of your points actually refute that white men with above median income have influenced and been listened to in the past 40 years

Or to say it another way, just because those things have happened, doesn't mean anything against what the parent poster wrote

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