Just another feminist for Hillary, and why!

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed.  If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.”  They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”  ~Clare Boothe Luce

This is Hillary Clinton’s class of 1967.  If you are trying to learn about feminism and what that means start here.  These were the leaders of the Second Wave.  These are the “white women” who fought for civil rights, gender equality, and Roe. v. Wade.  I was a little kid as she was graduating, but these are my older sisters.

These are the “white women” who worked for the poor.  These are women who secured the rights you currently enjoy and take so for granted.  These are women I looked up to.  Some of these women protested the Vietnam war, too.

Some went on to become radical feminists, or lesbians.  Some went on and got married.  Some had abortions.  Some had kids.  Some went to work.  Some didn’t work.

I’d really like to think that by 2008, we’d get some solidarity multiculturally for women.  But that time hasn’t come yet.  I knew that when Oprah endorsed Obama she wanted the Black Vote and she intended to make it national.  Her feminism is to help found a school for girls in Africa.  That’s good.  It’s feminism, anyway you slice it.

But here?  You see women leaders who led to other women leaders who thought about other women of all cultures and creeds.  You just look at Hillary’s speech from my post yesterday that she gave in the 90’s.

This election has shown the bitchiness among women.  As in who plans to endorse who.  The media has exploited this with gusto.  Young feminists should keep watch on what the GOP plans to do to Women’s rights.  Remember  what these women started, once, so long ago.  If you consider yourself “female” it matters.

When I went to college I took some of the first “Women’s Studies” classes there were.  That was 1981-1984.  It’s not that long ago is it?  Not really.  Give credit to “white women” where it is due.  We worked for everyone.  Didn’t we?

A great read from Martha Burk at Huffington Post is here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-burk/why-hillary-is-the-right-_b_84718.html

In looking at Obama’s web page under “People” he had women last.  That’s right.  Last.  Think I’d ever vote for that guy?

He’s my generation and he should know better.

More quotes on feminism from many different people are here at Quote Garden 

http://www.quotegarden.com/feminism.html

Here is an article from The Wall Street Journal on Michelle Obama:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120269904120358135.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I’m not sure I like her association with Treehouse foods, because I don’t like that company to begin with.

Here is an article on Black Feminism to explore from MIT.

http://www.mit.edu/activities/thistle/v9/9.01/6blackf.html

It’s too bad that Barack Obama had to run against Hillary Clinton.  I wish it could have been two women instead, running for President.  But that’s just my brand of feminism.  And guess what?  I’m heterosexual.  In case pomo feminists don’t know what that word means, it means “I sleep with men only” and I’m a woman.  I don’t know what I would have done without the feminists of Hillary’s generation working on causes for all women.

Pomo feminism?  It remains to be defined. I expect women will keep on working for it though.

I will never vote for Obama because of his disrespect of Hillary Clinton.  I saw it on TV.