scrawls.

scrawls

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13.11.06

this is why i am still a capital-F Feminist

if you wake it up. if you push the right buttons. because, when talking about the people who do politics around here, it is acceptable to say "i just don't like her hair" about hillary clinton as a reason to not vote for her. why is it that it is valid to make comments about her wardrobe, about her personality? are these things that matter? and if they are, why is it always, always, always less valid and more diminutive to call a male politician bitchy? how is tom delay NOT the exact definition of bitchy? how is it fair that if the governor of texas looks skeevy, that isn't taken as seriously as nancy pelosi wearing an Armani power suit? That comparing the president to a chimp is a joke, whereas talking about the jewelry choices of the next Speaker of the House is a serious issue? or "she seems pushy." she is a senator: SHE IS SUPPOSED TO BE PUSHY. that's, like, the whole point. To get things done that you want, that people know you want and that they voted for you so you could get them done. senators are supposed to be powerful. you want them to be powerful. if hillary was a man everyone would love her. All the parts of her personality - the aggression, the outspokenness, the having a fucking opinion on things - and why the FUCK do i know this about her, when i don't about my own fucking congressman? - would be admirable traits in a man. But no, she's a woman, so she's supposed to have perfect makeup (see also: the Katherine Harris ugly-makeup-gate) and be a follower. and fuck that.

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