The Hilary Conundrum
Do women hate Hilary? Yes, my female coworker hates Hilary. My mother in law hates Hilary. My husband hates Hilary, but he’s not a woman. If everyone hates her, why is she winning?
Women are in a tough place these days. You’re damned if you do, you’re damned if you don’t, you’re damned if you try to do both. Career? Family? Beauty? Brains? Feminine? Masculine? Powerful? Meek? We try to do it all. And all the thought we put into it all (should I have botox? Should I get a boob job? Does my ass look fat? Should I ask for that promotion? Should I get pregnant? Is he trying to kill me? Should I report that time I got sexually harassed? Should I make cookies for my coworkers? Or would that be perpetuating the myths that have had us downtrodden?) just makes most of us too goddamn exhausted to actually accomplish anything in life. So when someone like Hilary comes along, we wonder to ourselves, how did she have the time to do all that stuff, like become a Senator and presidential frontrunner? So then we call her ugly and bitchy and think about how she should’ve been putting her time into thinking about botox and boob jobs like the rest of us.
I know men have it hard too. They don’t know what their role is either. So they just give up and let us do it all. It’s all a big mess if you ask me. I personally would sell my soul to the devil to see a woman be president. I keep saying that out loud but I haven’t gotten a response. I don’t know if Satan hasn’t heard me yet or if he just plans on collecting on election day. I’ll keep you posted.
I’ve never been a huge fan of Hillary, and I’m a woman. Why? Well, here are a few of my reasons I could come up with, just off the top of my head:
1) She voted for the Iraq war, when it was completely obvious that the Bush administration was capitalizing on the atmosphere of fear and shock brought on by 9/11, and basing their rationale for war on bogus shit rather than facts about weapons of mass destruction and Sadaam Hussein’s ‘connections’ to Al Qaeda. Note: this wasn’t just Hillary, this was the majority of the Congressional Dems and I’m still bitter.
2) A lot of her “experience” comes from being the wife of a very powerful politician. If she hadn’t been married to Bill Clinton, would she be running for president? I think the answer is clearly no. Personally, that kind of bothers me - the first serious female presidential candidate in the U. S. is riding the coattails of her man? Kind of lame. We can do better than that, I think.
3) Because she didn’t kick Bill’s ass to the White House curb after the Monica Lewinsky incident. What a d-o-g he was!
But all this being said, I’ll probably vote for her in the upcoming VA primary anyways. And despite my issues with her, she’s better than any yahoo the Republicans can muster.
If we are friends, how lucky I am, for we have too many same habits, and I like writing too.