2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dear Hillary [View all]This is what happened. I was inviting a bunch of Facebook friends to like Bernie Sander' s page. These friends include many strong women, feminist activists, equal rights activists from my days in NYC working for inclusion of the bisexual and transgender communities, so many dynamic women...and I was wondering, how many of these women might support Hillary Clinton? And I wondered if any of these women would ask me to justify why I was not only standing against her in the primaries, but asking them to do the same.
And I thought about the "old boys club." I was thinking about how much of our activism has been about breaking into the "old boy's club" which we all understand has been predominantly an old white boy's club. I mean the reason we have black history month and women's history (or herstory) month is because we don't need to have white male history month. Every month is white male history month.
So I started thinking, with the two most influential leaders in the Democratic party - the party with which I have aligned myself my whole life - being a person of color and a woman, and having framed the struggle to empower the disempowered in terms of this old boy's club, isn't it freaking ironic that the person I feel is best suited to represent progressive, egalitarian, democratic principles is the old white guy.
It's not a racial slur, it's not anti-feminist. It's just straight-up irony. I was completely blind-sided that it could possibly be seen in any other way.