I sit here with the TV to my left. They are speaking in Springfield. I have a lot of feelings about Springfield. It is the capital of the largest industrialized state that votes repeatedly to not pass the Equal Rights Amendment. This is the body where Obama served for many years. This is my Normandy.
I realized Friday evening that this will be the last time in many years I could hope for a Democratic woman to be head of the US Senate and on the Presidential ticket. Such thoughts made me happy. Actually, I was surprised how much I grew to want it for President and, then, settling for Vice President. It felt like a blue sky in a storm and fresh air after years of suffocating smog.
So now we sit watching MSNBC and CNN with just a bunch of guys in ties covering a bunch of guys in ties. Yes, Chris Matthews and Wolf Blitzer - you can cover men ~ you prefer that. Those bitchy shrill women (code for educated and intelligent) will not be setting landmines for you to make visible your pitiful sexism. And Andrea Mitchell you must be delirious, your overt hatred of Hillary Clinton most likely contributed to her loss.
And we will be offered the back seat with cute little pieces about the wives. Can't wait to follow their clothes, hair-dos and how they are at mothering. Imagine the wives are educated and make money and DO IT ALL. gee whiz. I wonder what they will wear to the inauguration and if they will choose new china for the White house. What wonderful role models giving up everything for their husbands. How do you feel about watching Cindy McCain, multi-millionaire business woman, sitting behind John with her eyes downcast and faintly smiling. That is as much sarcasm as I can handle this early.
Yes, I know what Biden has done for women. He has been the champion of the Violence Against Women Act. I am not diminishing that it any way. But a woman in leadership, a woman who is voted for and thus elevated to national office would have revolutionized life for American girls. They will have to wait till all the shrinking dicks get over themselves.
I am not mad, I am grieving. Mad will be next ~ so be careful when you ask.
ADENDUM Did Biden just say his wife is drop-dead gorgeous and that it is a problem that she has a doctorate - a problem for whom?? Clearly a problem for me - and all the women in the US.
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