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By: if i were queen of the world » in which i offer excuses til i’m blue in the face.

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:19:01 +0000

[...] the queen of spain, with her request that hillary clinton drop out of the race and her subsequent response to the intense feminist backlashing that flooded her blog (and at least 1/4 of the whole internet) in [...]

By: Daisy

Daisy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:15:46 +0000

Didn’t we go through what we did in the seventies (yes, I’m an old-school feminist) so that women would not be defined by their gender? Vote for the candidate with the best qualifications. Period. (oops, poor choice of words perhaps…)

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:47:58 +0000

Margaret Thatcher was one tough lady, and I would have never voted for her and that wouldn’t have had a single damn thing to do with her gender. Same here. I don’t trust her, and having a penis wouldn’t help with that.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:00:10 +0000

My sister was one who voted Hilary based on her gender, and her desire to see a woman in office. I shake my head, and hope that 10 years from now she sees why that was the wrong reason to cast that vote.

I watched Hilary. I considered Hilary. When she wouldn’t stop walking all over Obama while he was speaking, while he had to hold his “shut up a minute” finger up at her so that she would stop and he could speak, I lost all respect for her. At another convention, I watched her berate and alienate herself from every conservative in the Country. Her comments were backhanded, hateful, and not-necessary. She’s rallying people together based on their hatred, and that is not a personality trait I’m looking for in a President.

It’s definitely not about being a woman, it’s about being a Candidate that can move our Country forward, and bring people together to form bonds over their commonalities and work through disagreements diplomatically.

Honestly? Part of me wishes she DID have those traits, because it would certainly be nice to have a woman in office. I think it would take women to a higher level of respect, where we could say “see? We CAN be anything we want”. But alas, she’s just proving that we can be bitches, and we cry and pout if we don’t get what we want. That’s terribly sad.

By: egan

egan — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:24:56 +0000

This whole shit about the Florida and Michigan delegates is really pissing me off. HIllary might really be losing it now. Ugh.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:29:51 +0000

This has been the hardest and most interesting primary season ever, and one of the things I have most resented about it is the idea that I would vote with my vagina. Not the idea, the assumption, actually. The presumption.

I first wrote about Obama a year ago here and my own letter to hillary clinton just last month.

I’ve been inspired back to participation after years of lying dormant and cynical. That’s huge, because when the second Bush term happened, I more or less gave up on believing any candidate could really make any change. Hope is a good thing.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:53:14 +0000

For the record, I am a white male republican and I would vote for Hilary or Obama before I would have voted for Romney.

Great post, Queen!

By: Amy@UWM

Amy@UWM — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:49:28 +0000

Love this post. Couldn’t agree more about the old-school feminists. It’s like they haven’t woken up to the fact that maybe they actually accomplished something with their hard-fought battles of the 60s and 70s.

My vote for Obama had nothing to do with genitalia, but everything to do with wanting a kinder, gentler country (yes, it absolutely comes down to personality). This isn’t a cool, angry -at-the-femi-nazis post, but I posted about a tough decision I made earlier in my life that parallels in many ways the decision we Dems are facing with the Obama/Clinton choice.

http://upwithmoms.blogspot.com/2008/02/experience-is-overrated.html

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:12:05 +0000

I love the new design. And I love the stand you are taking.

The F-word always gets women riled up because I think we all have our own definition and if we don’t fit someone else’s definition shit hits the fan.

If my priorities were in line with Hillary’s, you damn right I’d vote for her. But there not and I can’t cram them into that mold and hope for the best. It doesn’t work this way.

I have my own decision to make and it’s not an easy one. I refused to feel guilty about not voting for a woman because I’m a woman.

By: candace

candace — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:11:47 +0000

I think you’re brilliant. I think this is such an interesting point in time that we are at. Such a good time to examine feminism and how to inspired a new generation to get involved. I don’t think the NY NOW chapter inspires when it berates us for betraying Hillary. How could an organization that aims to empower us so quickly devalue our choice with one sentence?
My vote for Obama was actually inspired by Gloria Steinem’s Op ed piece in the NY times. She told me to vote for Hillary because she was the best person for the job and because she’s a woman. I had the second part down but then this other guy came and gave me some lovey dovey hope….. He hooked me with his “gay and straight” talk and for a moment I thought, “wow, we might all get represented here….”
I love Hillary. I love that we’re all talking about this and blogging about this and taking an interest in this. I love that she plays the game but I love even more that Obama seems to be taking visible steps to change the game. A bit. But let’s be realistic, they are ALL politicians. And that’s OK. They are both better than what we’ve got now…..