Hattie Caraway, the first woman elected to the Senate. |
I wrestled with taking a break for something that held no real suspense. Sure, there was a question of what, exactly, Bernie Sanders would do, but he'd already endorsed former rival Hillary Clinton. She was going to be nominated. And yet....
A woman nominated for president of a major political party is something that's never happened before in the United States. It's something that my mom, who was born just three years after women got the right to vote, didn't live to see. So I tuned in.
It took much longer than I expected. So long that I finally got my laptop and multi-tasked (something I generally avoid) by scheduling some advertising for August.
But it also was far more moving than I expected. Regardless of political views, hearing a woman born before women had the right to vote announce her state's delegates for the first woman to be the nominee of a major party...amazing. A Wall Street Journal article today talked about how far women have come, and yet I'm so often struck by how much as not changed. There are only 20 women in the Senate, for instance, despite having had the right to vote since 1920. Twenty.
Last night, though, I didn't think about that. I thought instead about how many girls will grow up in a world where it seems perfectly normal for a woman to be president. Where, perhaps, there'll be women running on both sides and no one will even comment on it.
For today, though, it is groundbreaking, so I felt the need to take one more break to write about it.
And now...back to work.
Again more feminist crap. Get over it big money brought Hillary in, not because she's a woman. You need to grasp the concept of politics.
ReplyDeleteThere certainly is a lot of money in politics, whether the candidates being supported are male or female. I don't advocate anyone supporting a candidate solely because of gender, but that doesn't keep me from being excited at seeing slow steps toward more balance in our government. Women are half the population in the U.S. I hope in my l lifetime I'll get to see them holding half the seats in government.
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