LOD: Gender Bender

If the men on the US Supreme Court say that corporations are people, are you surprised that the biggest corporations look just like them? The Citizens United ruling makes perfect sense from the perspective of the good ole boy club. A new study says women hold less than one sixth of the seats on the boards of directors of Fortune 500 corporations and they hold less than one in 12 of the firms’ top-paying jobs. Noting the Obama administration’s snub of women, most recently with the decision to limit access to the morning-after pill, the commentator says, “If the corporate campaign contributing person were at least half female, we surely would be able to expect better from the party that supposedly has women’s back.” Gender and racial privilege continues to distort the debate about voter ID as well. If you’re a white man who owns property, you think nothing about the burden of holding a photo ID. If you’re poor, female and black, it’s another story, as this new video from the NAACP highlights.