With all due respect, here is my response to Artemis March, PhD who posted "Let us not blame Hillary" on the Lynette Long website:
Very beautifully put. I respect your faith and reasoning but...
I fought very hard for Hillary Clinton and I cannot accept her posture of surrender. I must be old fashioned but to me integrity and honesty come first. I cannot accept her support of a man she clearly knew as dishonest with enough proof to back her up. If we, as women, give up for the sake of Party unity or for our own political ambitions, we will never be taken seriously even by our own gender. She, not only gave up at the Convention, but chose to back him and campaign for him harder than any other campaign rival in history.
Our new President Elect won mainly due to her strong support and that is something I cannot forgive her for. She taught us, through her speeches and stories, who the real Obama was. She told us he was not qualified and she spoke loud and clear about his dangerous liasons with terrorists and thieves. Which of the two Hillarys lied? The one who spoke out against him or the one who raised him to the highest level?
I feel like a fool for believing in her and for helping her throughout her campaign. She showed no respect for the rest of us who did not fall behind this rhetoric of Change and the need to have this finger selected President for the sake of our Country. She pushed women behind, not forward by her submissiveness, obedience and dependency in order to survive in her political world. The sad part of all this is that she still has not received the respect she deserved. Obama supporters still dislike her and hate the idea of her as part of the Obama Cabinet, isn't this ironic?
She was used as well as Bill is still being used. I feel sorry for them because they lost their pride when they chose not to fight for justice but to unite with the enemy.
I fought very hard for Hillary Clinton and I cannot accept her posture of surrender. I must be old fashioned but to me integrity and honesty come first. I cannot accept her support of a man she clearly knew as dishonest with enough proof to back her up. If we, as women, give up for the sake of Party unity or for our own political ambitions, we will never be taken seriously even by our own gender. She, not only gave up at the Convention, but chose to back him and campaign for him harder than any other campaign rival in history.
Our new President Elect won mainly due to her strong support and that is something I cannot forgive her for. She taught us, through her speeches and stories, who the real Obama was. She told us he was not qualified and she spoke loud and clear about his dangerous liasons with terrorists and thieves. Which of the two Hillarys lied? The one who spoke out against him or the one who raised him to the highest level?
I feel like a fool for believing in her and for helping her throughout her campaign. She showed no respect for the rest of us who did not fall behind this rhetoric of Change and the need to have this finger selected President for the sake of our Country. She pushed women behind, not forward by her submissiveness, obedience and dependency in order to survive in her political world. The sad part of all this is that she still has not received the respect she deserved. Obama supporters still dislike her and hate the idea of her as part of the Obama Cabinet, isn't this ironic?
She was used as well as Bill is still being used. I feel sorry for them because they lost their pride when they chose not to fight for justice but to unite with the enemy.
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This time I must disagree, my dear friend, Amarissa. Hillary inspired us beyond anything we had ever done before, and this closer encounter with politics also opened our idealistic eyes to the true nature of the game. No wonder there are so few women in politics. How many of us would have the strength to overcome the misogyny that Hillary (and also Sarah) endured? My heart goes out to both of them, and also my respect and support. I haven't walked a mile in their shoes, so I will not be the judge, however imperfect their choices may seem from a distance.
I agree with Dr. March:
"Let us not turn our pain, disappointment, anger, despair, and heartache into attacking this extraordinary woman for the choices she made because they don't fit our outsiders’ fantasy. Let us not participate in the scapegoating of female candidates—the behavior we have taken such exception to when done by others. Let us not do what women under patriarchy have done for their survival and crumbs for centuries—turn their anger horizontally rather than vertically—which keeps us divided and subordinated.
Let us train our fire where it belongs: the misogynist behavior of her abusive opponent, her Party, and the media, and the androcentric socio-political system which places women in impossible situations and pits them against each other. Patriarchy thrives on divisions it foments among women. Let us catch ourselves when we fall into that trap, and do the hard work to stop it so that we don't self-destruct as the Second and Third Waves did.
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