guys i am wicked jet lagged. like Asia FUCKED ME UP. i have been sleeping non stop and i generally feel like crap like my body is so confused and doesn't know what the fuck is going on. On a bonus note all this sleep has prevented me from eating so it's like...the best diet ever. Also the best diet ever, as discussed by ivan and i in Thailand...Typhoid and Malaria.
I’m having lots of tissues with the whole presidential things. It seems that everyone I know is voting for obama (clearly i only know liberals so this is scewed), which I am ok with but I get a little annoyed when I hear why people are not voting for hillary “I juts don’t like her personality." "i think she's cold." "i don't trust a menopausal woman." "She's not emotional enough." "what emotion she does she is fake." All of this makes me really upset because i don't actually think that she is being judged by the same standard that all the men who are running are being judged by. She truly can't fucking win because everything she does is viewed as being too much and too little and it really pisses me off. I mean basically what it comes down to is she’s a woman and therefore whatever she does will be judged in that way.
And now the whole tearing up thing.
The truth is that if she were to be president and Obama her vice she would fucking regulate this country like no other man has done. And if barrack were vice he would be awesome cuz he could be the face of our country to the world since he’s all charming and shit. But if it were to be the opposite way I don’t think Hillary would be a good vice president. so all in all i think if he doesn't win these primaries she will not be in office and no one will ever know her potential. part of me just wnats to tell people...give someone new a chance. Just because obama is black doesn't mean he's not a man, ie ever other fucking person we have had in power for our entire history.
I mean in a lot of way I think for democrats this is becoming a vote about “character” more than a vote about beliefs. It’s coming down to “who do I like more.” And the truth is people like barrack because he’s charming and they don’t like Hillary because she is, well, not. And people say that a president has to be charming but in all honesty if a woman were to be charming she would be considered silly and flirtatious as opposed to in control. To be in control a woman can't be charming in the same way that a man can be. But if we judge the qualities of a good president by the ones we have had in the past then really we would just be judging them by a male qualities. so any woman who ever runs can never compete in this male character oriented world. They will always fall short.
I'm not asking people to vote for someone just because she has a vagina but i'm saying that we should really look at why we are voting for someone else. i think that if Hillary were to win, anything bad that would happen would be blamed on her being a woman. But if Obama were to win anything bad would be blamed on his character. But as a woman our characters are inextricably tied to our womanhood, and this makes it really hard to get anywhere in a male oriented world.
i'm just real annoyed is all i'm saying because basically this is all some fucking sexist bullshit.
2 comments:
very much agree with what you are saying, but still, in my own personal defense (i'm not defending everyone since i definitely agree with you that this is sexist bullshit), i don't like hillary for the exact same reasons i don't like edwards... they are both super political/slick/polished. obama is too, i mean, in the sense that he is a good speaker, but when he does speak, especially in Q&A, he seems to me like he's thinking more seriously and answering questions more based on his own thinking than on what he and his advisors agreed he'd say. they are all smart people, but i get the sense that he uses his smartness differently from the way clinton & edwards do. so i am somewhat judging based on personality, rather than a platform, but i wouldn't say it's because hillary is too cold or what have you. just a thought.
i kinda disagree. i think that there will def. be extra judging on the part of hilary because she is a woman but you can say the same thing for barack because he is black. (as a side note the one thing i respect about the dem. race at least is the diversity of it.)
however, like emily said, hilary comes off very wonkish and out for power. in some respect, they all want the power, but at least obama can also add a little bit of sincerity to his quest to the presidency. i mean a lot of people see her as someone who is willing to do anything to get the presidency and don't respect her for that e.g.,she still stood by bill after the whole public cheating lewinsky/cigar scandal when any normal smart woman would have left even if it were for a short amount of time, but she immediately came out and said she still supports him. a lot of people took that as "she's just doing that for political reason." and like i said, the totes don't dig that.
in terms of charm, most elections usually come down to charm anyway, especially in the primaries. when candidates pretty much agree on 95% of the party's platform, it comes down to charm. and she just doesn't have it.
i think it is possible for a woman to charm a country without coming off flirtatious or stupid and still take charge without coming off like a biotch. think about any chick that has ever won as governor of a state or look at other countries where women have held high positions of office, e.g. marageret thatcher or benazir bhutto. these women charmed and still came off powerful like any other men.
also as another side note. hilary or barack will never be the other's VP. they hate each other. if anything, it would be edwards, whom i also don't like cause he seems like a sleazy politician.
of course, this is all coming from a repub so take it with a grain of salt.
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