What's with all this sexist pro-Hillary talk? A union leader says she has "testicular fortitude," a governor says she makes Rocky look like a "pansy, and now James Carville says if Hillary gave Obama one of her cajones, they'd each have two?
I thought Hillary was trying to break the "glass ceiling." I thought she wanted to prove that a woman could become president. I didn't think she was trying to prove that only a woman who is really a man is presidential material. I didn't think she wanted to be a male candidate, only masquerading as a woman.
I have long wanted to see the day when a woman could be elected president, but I wanted it to be a real woman, someone who is willing to use the very unique and powerful traits of womanhood to show men that there is another way to govern.
Now that Hillary Clinton is in the race, she and her supporters are trying to prove she is really a man, because in their estimation, apparently, those white, beer drinking, bowling, blue collar guys (what that idiot Chris Matthews calls "regular people") would never vote for a woman who wasn't really a man.
Back in the seventies, when I wholeheartedly embraced the woman's movement, I thought it was about more than equal pay for equal work. I thought it was about more than trying to prove that a woman was really the same as a man. One of the things I always promoted was the idea that men and women were different in many ways, and that is what was good about opening up lots of traditionally male jobs to them. Women had a different psychology, a different way of seeing and doing, and they provided a balance to the typical male way of doing things.
Having men and women work side by side strengthened the work force precisely because it brought new perspectives into the mix.
If Hillary Clinton were really trying to prove that a woman president would be an improvement on the male monopoly on the office of the presidency, she would be showing that different psychology to the nation. But she is not. She is trying to prove, by her "obliteration" remarks, her labeling of Obama as weak and elitist, and by her surrogates' use of offensive sexual innuendo about her anatomy, that she is really NOT a woman.
She doesn't represent me, she doesn't represent women, and she would be a ghastly first female president.
