S.E. Cupp challenged the notion that women share one political viewpoint in her Saturday New York Times column, “No, Not All Women Are Democrats.” She warns that the women-led blue wave liberals are salivating over this November may not be so big after all. Because conservative women are “hardly the unicorns some still believe we are.”

Cupp highlights the political diversity among women — something that is far too often overlooked among liberals. But the problem is even bigger than Democrats’ assumption that women will vote blue. After all, people have been assuming untrue things about women forever.

The problem is that we’re becoming a society in which a woman’s sex is her ultimate moral arbiter.

Offensive Reductionism

This notion is offensive as it is dangerous. The fact that I am a woman is an important part of my identity. But it certainly isn’t everything.

To suggest that who I am and what I believe ought to be distilled down to my womanhood implies that I’m not a whole person. That the only important thing about me is my sex.

What’s ironic is that when it comes to the transgender debate, liberals decry reducing someone down to their private parts. But when it comes to women and how liberals want them to vote, that’s exactly what they do.

‘Women’s Issue’ or Human Issue?

In her column, Cupp includes an insightful quote from female Trump voter Amy Maurer that illustrates this objectification. “I always find it funny when I hear the term ‘women’s issues’ because that term equates to birth control and abortion,” Maurer said. She goes on to explain that she’s a small business owner, which is what actually influences her voting habits.

With constant attempts to galvanize women around “women’s issues,” the left is assuming women’s concerns are limited to their reproductive systems. Additionally, they’re excluding men from extremely important moral debates. For example, abortion.

Human life inside the womb is a human issue. It’s not just about the mother with the womb, though she is an important part of the conversation. Abortion affects tiny boys and tiny girls. Abortion rates and contraception can have a big impact on a society’s replacement level — in other words, the continuance of the human race. All of this means it’s a conversation that concerns women and men.

Most of all, it concerns men and women because it’s a matter of right and wrong. If a man is killed unjustly, I ought to be concerned. Just so, a man should be concerned if a baby in the womb meets an unjust end.

Objectifying Us

In the #MeToo era, the left and right have condemned the objectification of women as mere things to be used for sexual pleasure. But when the left tries to reduce women into a group that predictably votes according to certain “women’s issues,” they are objectifying us too. They’re objectifying us as mere pawns to be used for a political agenda.

Don’t think so? Just look at what happens when women buck those expectations. We’re insulted, criticized, and accused of not being able to make decisions that benefit us.

Conservatives will remember Hillary Clinton’s comments about Trump-supporting women, made last September. Women who voted for President Donald Trump are “publicly disrespecting themselves,” she said.

As Cupp noted Saturday, former First Lady Michelle Obama made similar comments this year. Because of how women are voting, she is “concerned about us as women and how we think.” She thinks we need to have a “conversation with ourselves as women,” all because Hillary Clinton isn’t in the White House right now.

The left is still assuming that we women will behave a certain way because of our sex. And when we don’t, they judge us for making the wrong decision according to our sex.

Women Are People

How to fix this? In the short-term, don’t cave to the left’s expectations. Don’t let anyone guilt you into thinking one way politically just because you’re a woman.

Long-term, our culture must return to the idea that there is an absolute standard of right and wrong. There is no “right for me as a woman” and “right for you as a man.” What’s good is good, and what is evil is evil.

That doesn’t mean that women and men won’t bring different perspectives to certain issues based on their varied experience. But it does mean that as a society, we’ll make more decisions based on whether it is the right decision period. Not just the “right” decision for the voting bloc we’ve been cast into thanks to our sex.

Women are people. We aren’t political objects. We’re capable of making decisions that extend beyond our ovaries. When will the left realize that?