Email Conversations

This has been a very interesting week of email.  I began writing to women I admire asking about a women’s debate.  From my perspective – the news stinks.  Many of them want to ride under the radar and elect Hillary – as if once elected she is going to rise up and meet the unspoken expectations.  Gee – do ya think that’s gonna happen?  January 20, 2008 the campaign begins for January 20, 2012 and the winner is going to do what was required of them to get elected ~ actually it may decline as the years peel by – afraid of serving only one term.

A few truly understood my request – that women, as a force in the US needs/ deserves/requires a debate.  Women should be the leaders in a debates.  Women should be asking the questions.  Women should be the subject of the questions.  Women will VOTE when they are represented.  (some women I wrote to this week responded by telling me the dreadful statistics on women voting – What is that?  Why not respond by ASKING WHAT WILL BRING IN MORE WOMEN TO VOTE????)  The answer is that women will vote in droves when they perceive themselves as represented.

Let me take are wild leap here – Hillary should be encouraging a Women’s Sponsored Debate!  Ya Think?  This is not the time to duck and cover.  This is the time to embrace Equal Rights, Pay Equity, Reproductive Freedom, the privacy of women and their doctors, the needs of women immigrants, family health, education, women in prison, campus safety, the right to make a dollar on the dollar. 

I believe that if Hillary Clinton stood center stage and said that she would develop and support a national program to make campus safety a priority, college women would elect her.  I truly believe that if Hillary Clinton stood center stage and said that she would develop and support a national program to permanently establish pay equity, working women would elect her.  I truly believe that if Hillary Clinton stood center stage and talked openly, pointedly about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi (find and replace Sudanese) women and children without water and safety, American women would elect her.  I would be proud to campaign for her, to vote for her, to support her.

PS Happy Women's Equality Day.

Comments

[Stephanie]

I love this idea, Zoe! Bravo!!! You should be a strategist for Hillary...