NONE of those excuses make any sense to me. Not a single one.
There's such a detestable double standard at work here.
Ironic that the election of the first black man to the Oval Office - I THOUGHT and genuinely believed - proved that America had finally turned the damn page. And had finally grown up. And had finally gotten over that stupid damnable Neanderthal race thing. And that we finally were entering a truly "post-racial" era.
OY was I ever wrong. All that did was to rip the scab off the wound and bring racism roaring back stronger than ever.
And then, when a woman actually won a major party's nomination for the highest office in the land, I was hopeful again. That we had FINALLY turned THAT damn page. And had finally grown up. And had finally gotten over that stupid damnable Neanderthal sexism thing. And that we finally were entering a truly "post-sexism" era, and broken through that last glass ceiling of misogyny.
OY was I ever wrong. Again.
I still start getting teary-eyed when I think of the text I sent to my daughter the night before the election - how this was going to be MONUMENTAL for women all over the world - that the most powerful leader on the planet was going to be a WOMAN, and what kinds of eyes, and doors, and new eras were about to open up - for her and for all her girlfriends and female relatives and colleagues, and THEIR daughters. I was so looking forward to standing on the verge of an EPIC new era of true equality and true respect and opportunity and REAL, across-the-board equal status for women.
OY was I ever wrong. It just hurt. Worse than childbirth. And that hurt a LOT. Physically anyway. It just hurt. STILL hurts. All I can think of now is - Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, what my generation has left hers with... shards and splinters and wreckage and broken hopes and dashed dreams. Dreams of my own, frankly. Because I do not know how we lift ourselves out of this. The most magnificent, capable, brilliant, and ground-breaking two candidates in a row - Barack Obama and then Hillary Clinton. And they both got shit - by the boatload. And sadly, if it hadn't been stolen from her (because I STILL consider her the true winner last November, by some three-million votes), she would be the subject of NON-STOP PERSECUTION now, the likes of which we've NEVER seen. The list of "impeachable" "offenses" the CONS would have, pardon the pun, trumped up against her would stretch from here to Alpha Centauri.
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