That’s why the Iowa primary was following our historical pattern of making change. Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women (with the possible exception of obedient family members in the latter).
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: 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; because children are still raised mostly by women (to put it mildly) so men especially tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman; because racism stereotyped black men as more “masculine” for so long that some white men find their presence to be masculinity-affirming (as long as there aren’t too many of them); and because there is still no “right” way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what.
And then she says:
I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest.
I’m supporting Senator Clinton because like Senator Obama she has community organizing experience, but she also has more years in the Senate, an unprecedented eight years of on-the-job training in the White House, no masculinity to prove, the potential to tap a huge reservoir of this country’s talent by her example, and now even the courage to break the no-tears rule.
The most pathetic aspect of Gloria's support for Hillary Clinton is that Hillary has a fighting chance of being our president solely because of her husband. As Monica Lewinsky and everyone else knows, Bill has a penis. That flies in the face of big bushes everywhere.
Nearly everyone I know is against Hillary, but not because of her gender. It is because she's a liar, a fraud, and a socialist.
Don't miss Gloria's new book:
2 comments:
"...Community organizing experience..." - Geez Don, I dunno - you seem to imply that organizing bake sales, or garage/yard sales, or "walks" for cancer aren't the things that presidents are made of?
/sarcasm
Good story, Don. If it were not for your blog, I would not have heard any of this feminist claptrap hogwash.
Steinem also said Hill has more experience in the Senate. Senate, as opposed to actually running something. A president isn't just gladhanding in Capitol Hill lobbies, he's running the largest corporation in history. If Hillary or Obama become president, they will have their very first experience as CEO at the helm of a mammoth "company". Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Only Huckabee and Romney have some semblance of the experience necessary to run the US. I don't like either of them, but they're alone in the experience camp.
But back to the feminazi... She's truly enjoying her own reality. So many liberals confuse the world they dream of with the world we actually dwell in. It's amazing (and dangerous).
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