"The challenge of convincing white men they're not as meritorious as they think"

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'The makeup of Australia's new federal Parliament has finally come together, and with it comes some joyous news: a whopping 73 of our 266 parliamentarians are now women, or 32.3 per cent. That puts us in the illustrious company of countries like Laos, Guyana and Nepal, and even sees us inch ahead of Afghanistan, that renowned stronghold of women's rights.
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But an outfit in the US is pushing back against that dynamic. Most American political action committees (or PACs for short) are little more than fundraising avenues for Presidential and Congressional candidates, but the delightfully named Can You Not PAC has a different goal: to discourage straight white guys from running for office and throw their support behind women, people of colour and LGBTQ people instead.

Started in 2014 by co-founders Jack Teter and Kyle Huelsman – two college-educated white guys themselves – the PAC's target audience isn't the under-represented groups it's trying to empower. Rather, Can You Not direct their message at "egregiously overconfident white men" who are so convinced of their own unique ability to solve all the world's problems, they run for office despite being manifestly unqualified.
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"We challenge brogressives and others to reject any notion that they are uniquely qualified or positioned to seek political office in districts that don't need them," Can You Not's website explains. "As well-represented white dudes, we feel it is our obligation to know when to shut up and Not."

Besides the obvious point that the world doesn't need any more starry-eyed white boys living out their West Wing fantasies on the taxpayer dime, one of the main reasons Can You Not asks left-leaning white men in particular to step aside is that progressive policies are more likely to become reality in legislatures with significant female, non-white and queer presences.'