Letters to the Editor
Anna68
Published Letters: 208 Editor's Choice: 2
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Yeah, okay, even if one were inclined to start kissing butts of the Hillary supporters ...
[Read the article: Democrats, put down your swords]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is beyond me what we Obama supporters could possibly do to kiss their butts enough!!!!
We - and our candidate - and potentially the country are now being held hostage to answer - not for our own behavior, you understand - but for that of all those sexists out there everywhere!
Not that much can be expected, of course. We are, after all, the ObamaPodPeople with no independent thoughts of our own. Oh, and we're all sexist, even the women, all of us. And rich elitists. And unpatriotic. And we hate America. Because we're all (oooooOOOOOoooo) college educated! I guess we're French too.
If Hillary had won the nomination, I would have sat down, shut up and supported her. I would have done so even though she flunked the most critical test of leadership of our time when she supported the invasion of Iraq and the Patriot Act. After all, she is still a much better candidate than McCain.
The more I hear from the Hillary supporters, both online and IRL, the less respect I have for them.
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Yeah, that's me and my mom ...
[Read the article: Clinton news roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My sister and I support Obama. My mom supports Hillary Clinton. It's pretty ugly. My sister just changes the subject when it comes up, but she and I yell like we haven't since high school.
She can't get her head around the idea that I can't forgive Hillary for supporting the war just because she's a woman. I can't get my head around the idea that Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office equals a revolution per se.
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It really is generational!
[Read the article: Clinton news roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Add another one to the list: now that the second wave is post-menopausal, those of us who could actually exercise the reproductive rights are finding our own concerns marginalized.
Glad someone else noticed this too.
At least my Mom is sensible enough to vote for Obama now that he is the nominee, but I know some of the Hillary-McCainites and they make me absolutely livid.
I do not mean the people who are voting for McCain because they think he is the better candidate. I mean the people threatening to vote for him in some weird fit of sticking it to "the man".
I thought gender equality meant being able to judge the person by the content of their character ... or a candidate based on their policies. Silly me.
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Boys, boys, boys ...
[Read the article: Clinton news roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]See, just because Hillary Clinton's candidacy did not matter to you does not mean it does not matter to the world.
You do not equal the world. This is not about you. But that doesn't make it trivial.
And that's the kind of thinking and talking that gives the Hillary' supporters claims some weight. I'm not a fan of HRC, but if anything might have brought me around it was the loud MOVE ON ALREADY's from a certain portion of our electorate ... who have after all benefited from affirmative action for 6,000 years.
This was an important campaign and candidacy. And for those of you who are predicting the End of Feminism because of this, I'll tell you what: nothing builds a movement like defeat.
We the women of the Democratic party, if not the United States, are currently engaged in a furious debate, rooted in fissures that have been in the feminist movement since the 80s, but have mostly not been spoken openly. Don't mistake the light and heat for conflagration. This fight is well overdue, a housecleaning if you will.
But I predict it's not feminism's end but it's renaissance. For the first time in three decades, feminism is a passionate dinner table conversation in terms other than "I'm not a feminist, but ..."
Really, the sexists are crowing now, but they should be shaking in their shoes.
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clarification for people I know won't read carefully.
[Read the article: Clinton news roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... who have after all benefited from affirmative action for 6,000 years.
By which I mean men. Not African Americans. In case you get confused.
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I don't hate REAL men, h0tr0d
[Read the article: Clinton news roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shaking in your shoes ... shaking in your shoes ...
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Hey, I get it ...
[Read the article: Clinton news roundup]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It must be hard having every advantage handed to you and still not be where you want to be in life.
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an inconvenient housecleaning
[Read the article: The mother-daughter wars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I said this before in the Hillary Clinton roundup thread and I'll say it again here:
There is a certain amount of dirt and conflict between second and third wave feminists and has been since the 80s.
We have, both in the second and third wave, been afraid to really get out there and have a serious debate about the dirt between us because feminism in general (every wave, possibly even the first wave) has been under heavy fire for so long.
Yes, one of the big points of this conflict hinged upon a generation of women who were rejecting motherhood after they had inconveniently already had kids.
Feminism's detractors of course will point and say, ooh, and imperfect movement must be eeeEEEEEeeevil and what about the children and la la la ... but this is a terrible reason to not have the discussion at all.
Much the way gen-X progressives have started to say: Hey, we're religious too, gen-X feminists are saying: Hey, we're mothers too. That has got to be painful for Boomer and Silent feminists for whom rejecting motherhood was important, but there's plenty of pain to go around.
We are not all, like Rebecca Walker, rejecting feminism, or you personally. But we do have to have this inconvenient housecleaning. Conflict is scary, but scary is not bad.
I believe this fight is part of feminism's renaissance, not it's end. But you need to stop listening to the scary hooting people who smell blood in the water and start listening to your daughters!
Or what was it all for, anyway?