Hillary Clinton
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Once again, Melissa McEwan has penned a brilliant essay on Hillary Clinton for Blue Nation Review.One of my best and oldest friends lives in Park Ridge, Illinois, so Ive spent a lot of time there. It is the place where Hillary Clinton grew up. Perhaps because my friend and I talk politics a lot, or perhaps because we reminisce a lot, the way two friends who forged a lifelong friendship in the fire of becoming adults together tend to do, Ive found myself thinking about the young Hillary, who came from that place.
I think about who Hillary might have been, as a girl striving to be a good student and make her parents proud; as a girl learning about the world, and the people in it, outside the borders of her safe Chicago suburb; as a girl encountering sexism for the first time, and the second, and the third, and being overcome by the dawning realization that the rules were different for her.
That even though there were people who may have told her that women have achieved equality to men, that we can be anything we want to be, it wasnt true.
I think about when it was that she started figuring out that there were different rules for girls and women, what her formative experiences might have been. I wonder if, like me, she ever overheard men asking her father if he was disappointed that she wasnt a son, or was scolded by a minister for inquiring why women couldnt be ordained.
I wonder what her earliest barriers were, before shed even heard the word feminism, and when it was that she realized that they were just the first in what would be a lifetime of encountering them.
To be in a girl in a world that believes girls to be less-than is to be discouraged, over and over again. To become a woman who has achieved what Hillary has achieved, and who continues to fight for access to the most exclusive mens club on the planet, is to be indomitable in the face of that discouragement, to confront it over and over again.
From HillaryHQ
http://www.hillaryhq.com/2016/04/hillary-news-views-419-girl-from-park.html?m=1
SunSeeker
(51,695 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)One I've never seen before.
What an honor it is to be standing with her.
SunSeeker
(51,695 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)"To become a woman who has achieved what Hillary has achieved, and who continues to fight for access to the most exclusive mens club on the planet, is to be indomitable in the face of that discouragement, to confront it over and over again. "
There is NO other candidate tha carries forward the worth of the female fight for equality than Hillary.
Such an important & critical juncture in time we are at.
Prime example, look at Bernie Sanders supporters. Their demeaning words directed at the female gender.
Their frat boy behavior.
They are, if nothing else, a perfect motivation for women to turn their backs to that behavior & simply elect Hillary Clinton
Women have had to listened to this sick superior attitude & had no recourse but to suck it up, for generations.
NYC Times Square tonight, will be a victory party for All who have been held back by the pathetic & arrogant partrichy of men in America & throughout the world.
Thank You Hillary
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)of pants like that!
athena
(4,187 posts)I've been through perhaps a millionth of what she's been through, but it was nonetheless extremely painful. Seeing her do so well makes me feel that it was all worthwhile. We must not lose hope, even when things seem bleak.