International Women's Day
This post encapsulates beautifully why Secretary Clinton is one of my heroes:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-international-womens-day.html#disqus_thread
Hillary Clinton is a genuine exceptional woman, whose career frequently makes her the only woman in the room, a bright blazer among a sea of dark suits. But she never plays the Exceptional Woman; she never trades on being not like other women or tries to distance herself from women. Instead, she has dedicated her career and whatever resources it affords her to support women, to pursue and champion policies that will lift women up.
There are so many pernicious narratives about women that encourage women to embrace the role of Exceptional Woman, the woman who swears she's not like other women, so much tokenism that it fosters cautiousness among women who don't want to lose their spot among men, so many incentives for women to feel competitive with other women and so many disincentives against our being allies.
But Clinton has rejected all of that shit and instead become the kind of exceptional women who takes a long look around a room in which she's the only woman, and does not feel satisfied or insecure, but contemptuous that there aren't more women there. She is a woman who wants a world full of women just like her, better than her-women who will exceed her accomplishments and blaze new trails and break new barriers.
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-international-womens-day.html#disqus_thread
Hillary Clinton is a genuine exceptional woman, whose career frequently makes her the only woman in the room, a bright blazer among a sea of dark suits. But she never plays the Exceptional Woman; she never trades on being not like other women or tries to distance herself from women. Instead, she has dedicated her career and whatever resources it affords her to support women, to pursue and champion policies that will lift women up.
There are so many pernicious narratives about women that encourage women to embrace the role of Exceptional Woman, the woman who swears she's not like other women, so much tokenism that it fosters cautiousness among women who don't want to lose their spot among men, so many incentives for women to feel competitive with other women and so many disincentives against our being allies.
But Clinton has rejected all of that shit and instead become the kind of exceptional women who takes a long look around a room in which she's the only woman, and does not feel satisfied or insecure, but contemptuous that there aren't more women there. She is a woman who wants a world full of women just like her, better than her-women who will exceed her accomplishments and blaze new trails and break new barriers.