Gender and 2018 Election

In the articles "Stacey Abrams Didn’t Play It Safe. Neither Do These Female Candidates" by Susan Chira and Matt Flegenheimer and "Jill Soloway on Donald Trump, Locker Rooms and Toxic Masculinity" by Jill Soloway the topics mainly focusing around the ideas of gender and their roles in politics and our democratic society. 

In the first article, Soloway talks about the idea of "toxic masculinity," which she describes as "why most violence on this planet is done by men to men, why nearly all of the sexual violence is done by men." She also talks about the common misconception that has integrated itself into our society: "Boys will be boys and this is just the way it." When she said this, I thought back to the article talking about the childhood movies and cartoons that we watched. That article talked about how we view things in a certain way, based on shows we watched from 10+ years ago. I have learned from that article that that way that we think sometimes, almost subconsciously, is wrong and must change, just like the "toxic masculinity" Soloway describes. Both must change. 

The second article describes the journey of Stacey Abrams, who became the first he first black female major party gubernatorial nominee in the United States. Chira and Flegenheimer talks about how Abrams spent the first couple days of her initial campaign just "defending my right to run." She talks about how her race and color throw people off, and how they would focus more on her race than her political views. This made me think back to the ideas that were presented back in Allan G. Johnson's "Privilege, Power and Difference." Just the title of this article can be used to relate back to Abrams issues during her campaign. Candidates who are white and part of the majority don't have the same problems that people that are part of the minority (races) face, and such, they have more power and privilege in society. However, I also remembered the wheel that Johnson used in his article, with the inside factors being unchangeable, while the outside factors were changeable, and race was in the middle. I never viewed this as something that could change or not, however. I viewed this as the outside topics will more likely generate argument and conversation rather than someones age or physical abilities. It's because Abrams is black that people had a problem with her running, not because she is a woman. Basically, someones race, as demonstrated with Abrams, will cause more commotion than gender, which is how I really believed these connected. 

So that raises the question: besides for race, what will cause more commotion and argument in a political sense? 

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/what-we-mean-when-we-say-toxic-masculinity