2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, its OK to vote for Hillary because she is a woman! [View all]Well said.
I find it amusing that the same people who say that gender should be not a cause for influencing the vote will also ask next : Is the country ready for two women on the ticket? If there is no discrimination at all, and it was all in the past, what has kept a majority of people (women) to not have a single president representative? Why is it that the country still has an issue with two women on ticket, when two men on ticket has been the norm all these years?
I will not vote for someone purely because they are a woman. I would not vote for Sarah Palin or Carly. But I would vote for Hillary, in large part because I admire her, and because she is a woman. We need role models. My daughters need to see it. It is not enough for a man to "cherish" women. We need women to shape the policies since no matter what - men don't understand women's issues as women do.