Maybe she just passed Go and said, “Fuck you, I’m doing it anyway.” Maybe she’s truly awful, with suspect ethics. The evidence: She is voted for Iraq, she voted for the Patriot Act, and she pushed fracking as Secretariat of State, etc.
Mr. Jilly and I have many heated discussions. HEATED. I’m not lobbying for her because she’s a woman. As I’ve said before, under that reasoning, I’d be carrying a Sarah Palin banner. I’m no Hillary apologist. She’s not my ideal candidate. Nor has she behaved ethically.
I’d like to suggest, carefully and gently, a different narrative. If you’ll bear with me. What does it take as a woman to get ahead in politics and succeed? What possible sacrifices to her own ethics (be they what they are) has she to endure because of her gender? When almost everyone around you is a white male what does that mean, what possible comprises do you have to make? What does that say about the rest of us, that we are unable to recognize that gender matters? She’s wanted to be president since she was a child.
Gender matters, mofos. It matters now, it matters when she made poor decisions to get ahead, it matters if she is president. It’s not just about her being Hillary. It’s about her being a woman and to pretend otherwise is a lovely place I’d like to live.
