As a young female thirsting for opportunity, striving to succeed in a male dominated field, I believe in several feminist values. I see myself as quite independent in my personal life as well as my career. I advocate women's independence, equal salary/wages for equal jobs, and equal education. I frown upon (as most everyone) violence against women, women who feel their purpose in life is to marry and pop out kids, etcetera, etcetera. You all know the spiel. So upon first glance, most would say I'm a Hillary Clinton worshiping femi-nazi.
Truth be told, I detest Hillary Clinton. Yes, she is making history, running for president and being a female and all. But I think of Clinton and feel...nothing. I browsed her campaign website, HillaryClinton.com, and read article after article of her experiences and articles about who she advocates and who she has helped. But it all just feels disassociated from the people, from the public. Her persona feels as dry and crusty as all the other countless old white men that have run for Commander in Chief over the last two hundred years.
I feel she leaves so much to be desired. I feel completely uninspired, dispassionate, uninvolved. But, there is a candidate who does inspire me, as you may have guessed, Barack Obama. Why? I have asked myself this very question countless times. Why would a middle-aged, African- American, married, father inspire me? In search of answers, I browsed over Obama's campaign site, BarackObama.com. I found myself rereading over Obama's stance on several issues I felt were important; education, rural america, healthcare and taxes. I read several of his speeches and I noticed, in all of them, he does not speak of his dreams, the dreams of our children, the dreams and hopes of the elderly, the dreams of this ethnic group or that, but of OUR dreams. The dream of the American people. He speaks of not "the" future, but our future. Obama may be just another politician, but he makes his audience, supporters and opposers feel apart of a whole. Not separated by political association, wealth, poverty, education, or professions. His experience is not a list of publicity stunts to show he helped this group or this individual, but a collaboration of acts driven by his desire to"unite" the United States again.
Now no one can say whether he will follow through, but Obama has something the American people want. Whether it's vivacity, values, the desire for progress and true equality, the hope for opportunity, that drives this "middled-aged, African American, married, father", this man is something special. And I can only hope he follows through. He has surely gotten my hopes up that I can live in the America I want to live in. He makes me care. At this point, what more can a young voter, much less the American people ask for?
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Well good for you that you are a feminist but that just sucks you dont like hilary clinton. I'm an obama person myself.
Watch this Hilary campaign video and get your daily belly laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvyGydc8no&eurl=http://www.quizlaw.com/b...
I too am a feminist that is not pro-Hillary. In fact, I really cannot stand her at all. I think she is a greedy and power-hunger and does nothing for the advancement of women.
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
I'm no feminist. But none of these ideas give me any particular heartburn:
I advocate women's independence, equal salary/wages for equal jobs, and equal education. I frown upon (as most everyone) violence against women, women who feel their purpose in life is to marry and pop out kids, etcetera, etcetera
Well maybe I have a problem with some of the etceteras?
If I WERE a feminist I certainly would not be a Hillary supporter. Her only qualification as a feminist is that she vaguely appears to be female. (I actually think it is more plausible that she is a space alien).
Other than her alleged gender, she is the anti-feminist. She let Bill Clinton walk all over for the last two decades while she "stood by her man". Because of her and Bill, feminists had to coin the phrase "one free grope" which was a hypocrasy bath for the entire feminist movement. Hillary has climbed almost to the apex of political power not through her own talents or traits but rather by allowing herself to be abused by her husband. If she had shown the slightest amount of independent feminist gumption, she would not be a Senator right now but just a former First Lady who is now a wealthy divorcee. But at least she would be worthy of a little respect. She is about as far from being an inspirational role model for females as I can imagine.
If I were a feminist I could not stomach the thought of her as President. Actually even though I am not a feminist, the very thought of her triggers my gag reflex.
This is the most depressing presidential campaign year in my memory. We have Hillary. Enough said about her. We have Obama who is a gifted orator but is otherwise an empty shirt with no record of accomplishments and who has built an entire campaign around the ridiculous and completely undefined message of "change". I'm sure that when I finally figure out the change he has in mind I am not going to like it. I'm very uncomfortable with the terrorists, criminals and the radicals that he has surrounded himself with over the years. And then there is McCain who is just an insane version of Bush with an addiction to TV cameras and the sound of his own voice. I'll be voting "none of the above".
you're not a feminist? You sound just like one.
It's not universal, it's black
Animals are humans too
I assume some of the etceteras have to do with unlimited abortion.
I am pro choice but I am very uncomfortable with and disgusted by late term abortions. At some point, late in the pregnancy that baby would survive if it were delivered by C-section. I think those kinds of abortion amount to murder.
Do I still sound like a feminist?
You still sound like a feminist. In fact you still sound like me. I feel the same way about late term abortion. That's actually one of my problems with main stream feminism, the perception that all of us completely support any type of abortion.
I see you're drinking 1%...You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.
-Napoleon Dynamite
Well ....... at least I apparently don't sound like a main stream feminist.
I actually think I sound like a normal reasonable person who thinks fair is fair and equal work should get equal pay.
Feminists are different. They are usually foaming at the mouth and wild eyed and protesting something. That's why Rush calls them "femi-nazis".