Yes, its OK to vote for Hillary because she is a woman! [View all]

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I'm a woman, and in ways both good and bad, that inescapable fact has shaped my entire life. As a little girl I learned that my place in our authoritarian, patriarchal society was to be demure, chaste, and submissive, while having mad skills in the kitchen. As a young woman, I quickly learned that my boobs were more valuable than my brain, and my gender made me too flighty and irresponsible to get credit, buy a car or a house in my name alone. My various body parts also denied me employment, lowered my paycheck and benefits, and made me into a convenient sexual object for every man around. Its not really any different today.

Damned straight, I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton! And I'm going to vote for her because one of her most valuable assets is her strength as a powerful and articulate woman who has always been a fighter for the rights of little girls, young women and all women. We have been waiting for a leader like Hillary Clinton to move this country into the 21st century where women finally have equality in all things.

Laws have been written to hold women back, cut our pay, diminish our human and civil rights, and deny us even the basic autonomy of our own minds and bodies. Politicians gleefully pass laws to deny us the right to seek legal protections under a fair and unbiased justice system or demand redress for the harms done to us. Religious groups have organized to force new laws that keep us second class citizens, just chattel, of no more worth than a brood mare. Women have no right to demand equality or just and fair treatment under the existent laws.


Our society punishes and humiliates women both for not having children, as well as for having them. The recriminations for simply being a poor woman or an old woman, or a woman with brown skin, or a woman of a different faith, adds insult to injury. Too often the legal system colludes with moneyed interests in barbaric decisions that deny food to hungry people, or poison them with toxic air and water in acts of depraved cruelty just because there is no one who will speak up.

Yes, I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman, a strong woman who said that half her cabinet will be women, so I know her whole administration will be working on promoting women's equality.

Almost 25 years ago, Hillary Clinton gave a famous speech, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights", advocating for ways to improve women's lives. These issues are not just important to women, but they will also have an enormous impact on everyone -- children, families, men -- who will all benefit when women gain full equality. I hope The Equal Rights Amendment will be dusted off, as it promotes the shocking concept of, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” It has never been ratified to change the Constitution, maybe now with Hillary Clinton, it will finally get passed.

So, yes, I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton, the woman, and the next President of the United States.