SHOULD FEMALE VOTERS FEEL OBLIGATED TO VOTE FOR FEMALE CANDIDATES? [+] serious ballot by xxxxxxxx ACTIVE Thu Apr 19, 07 - Fri Apr 18, 08 "PARIS: At an outdoor rally just days before the French are to cast their ballots for president, Ségolène Royal, the Socialist candidate, came with a special message. "I want to address myself to the women," Royal declared in the town of Achicourt in northern France on Sunday. "I need the women's vote." She called on women to write "a new page in the history of France" by making her the first country's female president. "The entire world is watching you," she told them. While Royal's plea is revolutionary, it could backfire. The wooing of women voters as women is alien to republican France, where all citizens - and voters - are supposed to be treated as equals and where gender, race, ethnicity and religion are supposed to be ignored. The move has been seen by some as an ill-advised, even desperate ploy on the part of the 53-year-old candidate to win votes in the first round of the election four days from now by stressing gender over competence. "It's the wrong strategy, totally counterproductive," said Michèle Fitoussi, one of France's leading social commentators and a columnist at French Elle magazine. "Women are going to vote for Ségolène because they believe she's most qualified to be president, not because she's a woman. It's an insult to our intelligence to ask us to do such a thing." Nicolas Sarkozy, the front-runner and the conservative candidate, has taken the opposite approach. Asked at a conference organized by Elle earlier this month whether women were important for him, he replied that he had no particular message for them." (Source: International Herald Tribune, France) - Do you think it is sexist to expect female voters to vote for the female political candidate? Yes, that type of feminist expectation is sexist No, not at all Ballot #114115 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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