Blog comments are great - I love when people take time out of their days to share a thought that either agrees with or disagrees with mine. I love it even more when a shared thought prompts a blog post. So, thank you, Anonymous, for responding and inspiring me.
Here is the comment:
It is still a MAN's world and we may never see a woman in the White House. What amazes me however is the amount of women who will not vote for a competent person as Hillary. Shame on them and I hope I never hear another woman complaining about the glass ceiling. It is their fault that it will remain. Men haven't been able to get the job done for over two hundred years and I am sure HILLARY would have made a great president. It is not meant to be, even though there are more women in this world, but they are too stupid, and too jealous, and too intimidated by a strong,intelligent, working mother like Hillary Clinton. Hillary,you will always have my vote!!
This person is clearly a passionate Hillary Clinton fan. Great! Get behind your candidate of choice 100%. I'm a little sad that this person has given up, when Mrs. Clinton hasn't yet. She still believes that she can win the nomination. Too bad some of her supporters are giving up. That's the unfortunate power of a biased media more than anything else. At least in my opinion.
Electing a person should be about the facts: what a person has done/not done in their life and how their record matches up with prior commitments. But, perhaps due to an insane number of years spending more time building publicly educated children's characters and less about the political process (and other subjects for that matter), voters are not taking the time to look at factual information as closely as they need to before casting a vote. Media taps into emotions, and whomever develops,designs and creates the candidate messages that make people feel the most good will win. Our country has raised a couple of generations of people who must feel good even when they're wrong: No, Bobbi, 2+2 does not = 5. But look at how boldly you gave your answer to the class. I like how you believed in yourself enough to try.
Really, the better response would be "No, Bobbi, 2+2 does not = 5. Does anyone else want to try?
But I digress.
I think it's sad that I should be expected to support Hillary Clinton simply because I am a woman and so is she. I agree with the author over here who says that is sexism. I'm sad that voters are using gender or race as a primary focus on their decision. I'm sure it's happening. It's also sad to assume that members of a specific gender or race choose not to vote for a particular candidate are doing that group disservice.
Check out this blogger's comments on the issue. I'm particularly fond of her changes to a quote made by Gloria Steinem found at the bottom of the post.
Speaking of Ms. Steinem, I found both of the above linked-to articles searching fro a quote I remember reading in the Washington Post or the Examiner a few weeks back. Ir said something along the lines of women not needing to support Hillary Clinton simply because she's a woman.
Anonymous says:
What amazes me however is the amount of women who will not vote for a competent person as Hillary. Shame on them and I hope I never hear another woman complaining about the glass ceiling. It is their fault that it will remain.
To that I reply:
A) I'm too old to believe that I must take the fall for someone else's view of the state of the world
B) I was raised to stand behind what I feel is right based on educated research and non-biased data (which is tough to find these days)
C) I was also raised to believe it is my civic duty to vote, and tend only to get into political conversations with people who actually vote. I believe non-voters are the people who do not have a right to complain about their world - not the ones who vote for the candidate that ultimately loses.
D) I've written enough for this morning and now it's time to go back to bed (at 5AM when I've been awake since 3:30)
