Posted by Dinah on July 6, 2016, at 23:28:05
In reply to Re: Emotional reactions to news » Dinah, posted by Phillipa on July 6, 2016, at 23:00:30
You know, it's the oddest thing. I must have been born slightly too late to understand the big deal about male/female. No one ever told me I couldn't be anything I wanted to be. Girls were perhaps more likely than boys to be at the top of my classes. As many women as men of my acquaintance were likely to be the dominant member of families. I've been surprised to discover that Mormons have a bad reputation about feminism. Most of the Mormon women I grew up with were incredibly strong role models with husbands who respected them and treated them as equal partners. I've never had the tiniest pushback on my gender in the workplace. I don't think my parents ever in my life built any expectation whatsoever on my gender.
I don't ever remember being referred to as "sweetheart" or "darling" by anyone who didn't have the right to refer to me as such. I think perhaps once a speaker referred to "the little ladies" in the audience, and my husband put his hand over mine (as I muttered about being taller than the "gentleman" in question) and reminded me that he was from a different era. But that was an anomaly, not the norm. And in retrospect, more amusing than anything.
I barely even notice gender of presidential candidates. It surprises me that they're making any sort of deal about it at all.
Why shouldn't a woman be president? Even if you buy into arguments about hormones, surely that is no longer an issue in this particular case.
To be clear, I can honestly say that I am no particular fan of any person currently in the runoffs for President.
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