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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)14. It's still sometimes shocking for me that people STILL THINK like that
That women aren't as smart, ambitious or capable. I always took that for granted and it amazes me that other people don't even today. As I read more and more and realized how much more needed to be done, and talked to more girls and women about how they are treated in society both educationally, career-wise and personally. I hope after 8 years of Hillary that changes for the better.
But I also fear it'll be like what happened with 8 years of Obama. Just like I heard the N word more and more throughout his tenure, I fear we'll hear the C word more and more, and that misogyny will bubble up to the surface even more.
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As a 43-year old woman who was told in HS women were "too emotional" to be president
auntpurl
Jul 2016
#5
They used to say that women's menstrual cycles made them too unstable to be President.
pnwmom
Jul 2016
#32
As late as the 1990's, I was told that my daughter couldn't have an appropriate math placement
pnwmom
Jul 2016
#13
It's still sometimes shocking for me that people STILL THINK like that
forjusticethunders
Jul 2016
#14