Is America Ready for a Woman President? Go to hell.

[ksmith]

Not the biggest fan of The Huffington Post, but I liked this:

When people write, "Is America ready for a female president?" they need to know how insulting that is to women. These are the doubt planters. Tell 'em to go to hell. They're not asking, they're undermining. If you want to make someone feel unwell, don't say, "You look terrible", because he'll immediately bounce back with, "I feel fine!" But if you ASK, if you say, "Do you feel all right?" the doubt sets right in. "Why? Why do you ask? What's wrong?" That's what they're doing. "Is America READY for a woman president?" "Why? What's going to happen??"

Comments

Is America Ready...

[delkytlar.livejournal.com]

...for comprehensive health care? Higher test scores and GPA's in America's schools? Lower levels of pollution? A decrease in the national debt? Peace?

If so, we're ready for a woman President.

Re: Is America Ready...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

In a way, that's true, but in another...

I like the quotation on the bottom of the page:

"True equality will only be achieved when we have mediocre women in high positions" - Unknown

Not that we should strive for mediocity...although it would be an improvement over the last 6 years.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

As long as the qualifier remains more important than the position, we're in trouble. Maybe we should be asking "Is America ready for another male president?"

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

The fact that this sentence even occurs (and your later post about "nagging"), shows that clearly we are not.

To which I say, "Tough shit." People don't have to be "ready" for something in order for it to do them some good. In fact, it might do more good for them that way.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

A good shock to the system would be nice...assuming the blowback doesn't take out everything in its path.