Was this an example of gender bias?

First, where I'm coming from: I'm a guy. Not the most hopeless "guy" in the world, but one who, in limited doses under the right circumstances, can find farts to be funny.

I think the gender issue has been, in many cases, overplayed. But here's an example that I think is legitimate:

We keep seeing exit poll data for answers to variants of the question, "Did race play a role in your vote?"

Any fair version of punditry would then necessarily ask, "Did gender play a role in your vote?"

Both questions are meaningless, of course. They can produce numbers based on people who would favor race or gender, as well as rule against them.

A more fair version of those questions might be, "Would it be harder for you to vote for a woman/Would it be harder for you to vote for a black person?"

While those questions might get even less people to answer honestly, at least they separate those who discriminate against a candidate from those who identify with a candidate better *because* of race or gender.

I think the fact that people were polled about their vote on race and not polled about their vote on gender -- even though both are such a big issue -- suggests a blind spot in the punditry.

Oddly, I think that the more you got people to answer honestly, the more you'd see that a lot more people are negative about race than gender. But then again, like I said, I'm a guy. (A white guy, if that has any bearing. A white guy who just farted.)

I think part of the reason a lot of women are upset about this campaign could be the frustration of experiencing gender discrimination in their own lives and seeing that it goes relatively unnoticed when compared to the attention that black people get for the discrimination they experience.

Maybe some of the anger we're seeing is a backlash against the discrimination of disproportionality when talking about victims of discrimination -- particularly in the media.

In any case, I think the failure to ask the same question about gender as they do about race shows that the people asking the questions are not fairly representing all of the public.

And that unfairness causes women to be bitter and to cling to guns and religion.