I’m a rule follower. There, I said it. If you don’t believe me, ask my friends. I’m not perfect, and yes, I’m edgy, but I still follow the rules.
This week has been challenging for me, as a recovering journalist I have so many things to say but have held them inside. Partially because I never know which clients might considering hiring me, but mostly because as a trained journalist, my opinions are those of myself and not representative of someone else or another organization.
That being said. Where is the first woman president? Heck, even vice president? Look, I’m not some balls-to-the-wall feminist, but seriously. Why can’t a woman run this country? Things couldn’t get any worse. Besides we relate to most of the voting population. Seriously, it’s 2012!
When I imagined what it would be like at this age, I thought that a woman in office went without saying. My dad, a machinist who raised me in the democratic fashion, had no problem voting for a female VP in 1984. You see, my dad taught me a lot. And one of those things is that women can be anything they want to be.
So why after all of these years do I feel like nothing has changed? Look, I’m not trying to make any kind of political stand, but I do think young women deserve to know the truth. You can be anything you want to be. Period. My dad taught me that. And I’ve never stopped believing.
Stylishly yours,
Miss Attitude
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Right on!
Up until when conservatives started their war on women, I was really beginning to think that the country was indeed ready for a female president. Now, I don’t know.
Women like Jan Brewer and Michele Bachmann have done a lot to set women back. I think the same people that have a problem with President Obama are the same kind of people that would have a problem with a female president.
I’m really hoping that Hillary Clinton still has presidential aspirations and that she runs in 2016. I know she’d have my vote.
You should run. You have my vote.