There Will Never Be A Woman U.S. President: The Language of Politics.
Peddling the 10th anniversary edition of It Takes A Village, Senator Hillary Clinton appeared today on ABC’s “The View”.
There was our most significant hope for a female President…joshing around with Rosie and Joy. (What’s up with Rosie lately, she’s getting just about everyone all upset.)
Everything was going along nicely — with her faux-moderate/mommy tone…very fluffy and soft on Hillary’s part.
Then at the end of the inverview(?), she uttered these words: (roughly)
We live in country in which you can grow up to be anything you want…and hopefully President of the United States…EVEN IF YOU ARE A GIRL.
How is it in this day and age we still say things like this about the abilities of women. There will never be a woman President if we keep talking like that.
I say that come the next election, there should be a new referendum that forces us to change the language we use when talking about female Presidential hopefuls:
- You can be anything you want to be in this country, even President…ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU ARE A WOMAN.
Hillary even went as far as admitting that a female President is “…such a leap of faith…” Oh my gosh — What is that!
While we’re at it, let’s all stop using the word minorities. There are no longer minorities, just very, very refined, segmented villages of our population.
I am in the the village of The Female Entreprenuer , the Chocolate Labrador Mom, who buys expensive footwear, who lives in the suburbs of NYC, and who is a chef groupie.
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2 opinions for There Will Never Be A Woman U.S. President: The Language of Politics.
Leah
Apr 15, 2008 at 11:27 am
Excellent point. And while we’re at it, let’s add a few feminine pronouns to the constitution so that I might possibly feel like those rights belong to me, and not just the other gender.
Rosanne
Apr 25, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Female entrepreneurs have a better chance of changing the status quo than female VP’s of companies who are still fighting for leadership roles and equal pay throughout the U.S.
We need to start encouraging young women to start their own companies, and become the President of a female-owned business rather than an underpaid Employee with a title.
Too many women are satisfied working long hours for less pay than their male counterparts; women have yet to rise up with solidarity to demand more, even through they outnumber men.
When (and if) that is ever achieved, the concept of a female as President will be a “given” not a strange anomaly. But, we’re still at the anomaly stage in U.S. history, and I think the suffragists must surely be rolling over in their graves at the sight.
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