Dear Herman Cain, WHAT OTHER PEOPLE did you mean exactly?

WHAT other people, eactly, do you mean Herman, because women and children are the only other categories you could reasonably refer to here. 
Herman Cain, token, toadying GOP black man who was apparently incapable of keeping his hands off of his women employees, or of keeping his manly bits where they properly belonged either, has now opened his mouth and inserted both of his feet.

While apparently trying desperately to suck up to the GOP establishment, he only made a bad situation worse with this little gem, referencing men compared to 'other people'.  What other people are there besides men, except women, and maybe children?  Now perhaps he is thinking of prominent Republican women, who are clearly and chronically ignorant about all manner of things in a very public way - Sarah Palin's inadequacies in failing to know what the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war was is clearly a striking example from the previous presidential election.

But clearly that excludes any number of other women, on both sides of the aisle, from Condi Rice on the right to Hilary Clinton on the left, not to mention any number of other women who held cabinet level positions or just below that level in the past couple of oh......say, DECADES.

Bless wikipedia, they have an entry for list of female United States Cabinet Secretaries.  (We can only hope that sexist stupid Herman doesn't mistakenly think those secretaries were there to do the typing and filing.)  Sadly, I couldn't find a similarly convenient list that included Undersecretaries, like  Paula Dobriansky from the Bush administration, or a list of women ambassadors either.  But it was the Obama administration that created the role, United States Ambassador at large for Global Women's Issues.  And it was Obama who has made more nominations of women to the Supreme Court than any previous president.  Presumably THEY understand policy issues? 

Apart from lumping in women with children apparently, categorizing women and children along with the general public as being ignorant and ill informed.  Which is particularly rich since his nine-nine-nonsense was one of the stupidest economic proposals made in a long time, at least as long ago as Steve Forbes went down in flames with his proposal, back in 1995-96.  Perhaps ol' out-of-touch-except for sex Herman is unaware of how many women, we of the 'general public', who are policy wonks in our participation in the blogosphere?  Let me refer him to a very accessible site that can educate ignorant Herman, the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics, which covers the entire gamut of women's participation in politics (psssssssst! that includes understanding policy, Herman):  About the Center for American Women and Politics

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is nationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly research and current data about American women’s political participation.

But then Cain, who is chronically incoherent in his thought and routinely inarticulate at best in his pronouncements, is perhaps assuming other people are as flawed as he is himself, and that this is true of women as well, based on the many, many gaffes of Palin and Bachmann.
For example we have these quotes about his admitted ignorance and gaffes, from HuffPo, back when he was in the GOP race just last November, less than six months ago:

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain defended his foreign policy knowledge following a disastrous editorial board interview where he struggled to answer a question on Libya. "I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out," he said to a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter while on his campaign bus on Monday, the afternoon after his interview with the paper's editorial board. "I want to talk to commanders on the ground. Because you run for president (people say) you need to have the answer. No, you don't! No, you don't! That's not good decision-making."  The former Godfather's Pizza CEO struggled to answer a question on Libya for about five minutes. ....Cain has made multiple foreign policy gaffes during his campaign. When asked whether he was ready for "gotcha" questions in early October, he said, "When they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say you know, I don't know. Do you know?" After the exchange, his campaign came up with a list of twenty foreign leaders for him to commit to memory.

If THIS is Cain's idea of 'helping' explain the supposed 'Gender Gap', it isn't.  But then one has to wonder quite a bit about any of Cain's thought processes, including running those creepy ads featuring a strangely mute and apparently sadistic little girl assisting in the torture of helpless animals like goldfish and bunnies.  I'm not sure what twisted message Cain is attempting to express, but it does underline just how surreal his world view is.  And as with the right initiating the contraceptive controversy, and with the right wing culture war on women through their utterly bizarre legislation, and repeal of existing legislation like that which affects equal pay for women, neither his comments nor his little sicko videos are making a positive difference for the right.  He is alienating the independents, the moderate republicans and anyone to the left of them.  He would be more effective if he just went away and hid in his well deserved shame of sexual misconduct that victimized women.
From Care2.com :

Herman Cain Explains The Gender Gap: ‘Men Are Much More Familiar’ With Policy Than ‘Other People’

• by ThinkProgress
• April 10, 2012
• 2:00 pm

Herman Cain, the eccentric former presidential candidate and pizza mogul with a checkered past on women, suggested today that presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney is losing support among women because men are better informed.
Asked about a new Washington Post/ABC News poll showing President Obama beating Romney on women’s issues, Cain explained this by saying that men tend to be more familiar with policy, while others only know about Obama’s family:

CAIN: Yes, President Obama is very likable to most people, if you just look at him and his family. But if you look at his policies, which is what most people disagree with, it’s a different story. And I think many men are much more familiar with the failed policies than a lot of other people, as well as the general public.

Watch it:

The Post poll showed Romney trailing by a whopping 19 points among women. And while his surrogates and allies have been loathe to admit it, Romney himself acknowledged that the gender gap is related to the recent debate over contraception.
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This gender gap with women widened significantly through right wing misogynistic legislation; it widened further through the ill-conceived (pun intended) antics of Rick Santorum; and now it is continuing to widen as Mitt Romney gets caught in gaffes and misstatements about women and the economy.
I can only wonder how much worse that gap will get with the assistance of Herman Cain, the patronizing jackass who thinks men are better informed on policy than women.......and the general public. 
Patronizing Sexist Jerk.