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Edited on Fri Aug-17-07 07:12 AM by The Backlash Cometh
I am very happy to see the spouses involved in their husband's campaign. Very sharp, professional ladies, all around, and I'll give Hillary Clinton the credit for breaking ground in the 90s. Being the first to have to overcome the chauvinist reaction to a first lady who made it through the liberating feminist movement.
I will say this, the feminist movement wasn't about a woman's right to work, because women were working long before the 60s out of necessity, such as my mother, and she was no feminist. She wouldn't have even had time to understand what the uproar was about. The feminist movement was about forging ground in occupational areas where women were not usually welcome. And, when it comes to the first lady position, what the feminist movement did was give a woman a chance to speak her mind boldly. Emphasis on the word "boldly," because first ladys have always had a say, they just had to do it in a way that didn't alarm the chauvinists. And Hillary did alarm the chauvinists and took a beating for it. So, for that I'll say, thank you Hillary Clinton, for being the first to take the flak because, it's very exciting to see what each new spouse brings to the table.
It's well over forty years since the feminist movement began, and it's time that we stop requiring women to hide their brilliance just because it makes conservatives feel uncomfortable. Just imagine the experiences that Michelle Obama has to talk about, that you've never heard from the lips of a first lady.
Someday we'll look back and watch the reels of the pundits in the 90s who were shocked at Hillary's bold assertiveness and see them for the dinosaurs they are.
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