women are never front runners

[papergreen]

...because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was; because anything that affects males is seen as more serious than anything that affects “only” the female half of the human race...

while i didn't vote for hillary this time around, i have to agree wholeheartedly with this gloria steinem op-edthis was also my exact thought as to

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[papergreen]

i do not think that marriage counts as job experience.
that's what bugs me most about people who talk about electing "the clintons".

[cosmopolitanblu]

I agreed with a lot of it too, especially the opening couple of paragraphs.

However, the one thing I found really glaringly wrong was when Steinem said that Hillary has "no masculinity to prove."

Actually, I think she has the MOST masculinity to prove, more than any other candidate. I think she and, unfortunately, most of our country associate strong and effective leadership with masculinity. It would be nice to believe that if she became president, masculine ideals would be overturned, but I feel like she would only try to conform to them.

I respect Hillary a lot, and I'm sure she was perfectly capable to see through the WMD bullshit, and yet she supported the war for quite some time. I can't come up with any possible reason for that other than wanting to appear "tough."

[jdtnirvana]

As a side note I hate my computer which deleted my fully formed comment