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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]mcar
(42,210 posts)29. Fellow "woman of a certain age" here
And I am right there with you, Jill. I've been in tears all week. I really didn't think it would hit me that hard.
This morning, I went to my usual water aerobics class at a gym in my Tea Party FL town. Needless to say, I don't talk politics with too many there, although most of the people are lovely human beings regardless.
One older woman came in, ran to an even older woman and said"did you see her? Did you see her?" I wandered over and sure enough, they were celebrating history! We talked about the convention till class started.
I had no clue I wasn't alone. I felt good about it all day.
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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