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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN removes story about women’s hormones affecting voting
Thursday, Oct 25, 2012By Natasha Lennard
Posted on Salon.com
Following widespread ridicule, CNN has removed a story published online Wednesday about whether hormones could influence female voting choices.
The piece by Elizabeth Landau looked at unpublished research that suggested female voting behavior was affected by whether a woman was ovulating on Election Day, or as our own Jillian Rayfield put it Wednesday, whether their lady parts might be doing the voting for them. As Poynter noted Thursday, CNN has taken down the post an put up a notice stating that after further review it was determined that some elements of the story did not meet the editorial standards of CNN.
Poynter notes that CNN has not elaborated on which precise elements in Landaus post fell short of their standards.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/25/cnn_removes_story_about_womens_hormones_affecting_voting/
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)as they slobbered all over their Palin fantasies while they fondle their guns
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)"Men Prone to Rage and Agression -- Should They Be Allowed To Drive?" ... Yeah, we'll never see a story like that on CNN.
joycejnr
(326 posts)...a hurricane threat from the Caribbean may hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Election Day.
Few voters mean Republican wins.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)Sandy, the hurricane you are referring to, is supposed to hit the east coast sometime between Sunday, October 28th and Monday, October 29th. Election Day is November 6th. The spot it is going to come ashore is still undetermined due to several factors as I understand it, including positioning of some high and low pressure fronts. The European model, which for some reason this year has been more accurate than some of the other models, suggests that landfall could be somewhere on the Delmarva Peninsula. Since I live in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, I'm watching Sandy's path carefully. So, while Sandy will not be hitting on Election Day, it is always possible that widespread and long-lasting power outages caused by wind and rain could still be affecting voting on November 6th. That's why my husband and I are going to vote early this weekend.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)win_in_06
(1,764 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)to be allowed to vote? Why would this even be a study?
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)It tends to be the media that carries them to ridiculous conclusions, like this article was striving to do. The Daily Mail's the undisputed champion of doing that, but CNN gives them a run for their money fairly regularly.
antigone382
(3,682 posts)...then perhaps it would present an interesting picture of what we are discovering on the impact hormones have on behavior. I can understand how an individual study would focus solely on one sex or the other. I cannot understand how an article on its findings would neglect to mention a parallel effect in men. Acting as if women are somehow uniquely vulnerable to hormonal fluctuations is just patently ignorant. It is no secret that male behavior and attitudes are affected to some degree by both by their own hormones and even by the hormones of the women around them.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Am I in a time warp? Is this freakin 1970 again? Damn, I am too old to be fighting this battle again.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)I wish they'd get the fuck over that shit. Yeah yeah we got hormones. I got hormones, you got hormones, all God's children got hormones. Deal.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)Sivafae
(480 posts)I'm in the grips of HORMONES!
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)Gee I wonder why.
Obviously they never should have given us unpredictable, emotional women the right to vote in the first place!
Yet another reason I NEVER watch CNN.
niyad
(113,582 posts)things about women choosing sexy cads as good dads, and choosing careers based on how many males are in those careers.
MrsBrady
(4,187 posts)when it's that time of the month.
But I'm voting Dem, no matter what....
what a freaking load of crap