With all the arguments for-and-against each of the candidates, we forget (or maybe suppress/ignore) one important issue, and that is, the gender issue. If you didn't have a chance, you may try read Bob Herbert, "Politics and Misogyny" article in the New York Times, Op-Ed page, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008. In short, he lists reasons to look seriously in that direction -- from sexual mistreatment of women in the army (we're now voting for the 'commander in chief'), to belittle women in the workforce, to violence against many married women, to dehumanization of women in pornography, and others. and, quote, "We've become so used to the disrespectful, degrading, contemptuous, and even violent treatment of women that we hardly notice it. Staggering amounts of violence are unleashed against women and girls everyday. Fashionable ads in mainstream publications play of that violence, exploiting themes of death and dismemberment, female submissiveness and child pornography." In my view, any woman cannot, and should not, dismiss the importance of all of the above in this once-in-a-lifetime chance.