Been AWOL in France without your e-mail address, so just to say that in case my Okie squeeze forgot to do as told: Thanks SO MUCH for the link to the Judith Warner piece because it provided a link to one of our absolute heroines in the women’s movement: Robin Morgan. I didn’t know she was still alive and kicking, but once a feminist, always a feminist (to paraphrase my old girl-scout slogan), I guess, she wrote some of THE books that inspired us all – and her take and how Hillary has been treated was 100% the way I had perceived it privately myself.

We always replace “woman” with “black” or “Jew” to see whether anything that’s uttered is sexist, you see. Racism or anti-semitism aren’t below people’s radar by now, sexism still is. Our old trick, and she used it, just as I had when reading some of the blogs and comments about her.

This doesn’t mean that I’d vote for Hillary, if American, mind you (actually, I’d be in a quagmire, since none of them are exactly where I am, so it would be a beauty contest, and for a politically interested European, none of their foreign policy ideas are convincing, they both know too little, as nearly always with US presidents, I fear). But thanks for a link that expressed most of my own thoughts. And it was good to read a sister again who had a decisive influence on my life.

That’s BTW why I always have to chuckle when accused of Anti-Americanism (the accusation as such reveals fascist thinking, as far as I am concerned): Apart from Marx, it was ironically enough 90% Americans who eventually shaped my Weltanschauung. Except that they weren’t the compatriots America cherishes the most.

Brigitte

Those two writers you referenced in your blog, were a wee bit sensitive, don’t ya think?

As for Hillary, there’s just too much baggage with her is the problem in my mind. Actually I am surprised she has come as far as she has, because at the onset of her running I immediately thought of her as completely unelectable. Had you been in charge of her campaign with the “Momma Ain’t Happy” slogan, she could be unstoppable.

Yes, she’s smart. I just have a hard time respecting a feminist who has spent a whole lot of time riding the coattails of her husband. Besides, every time we turn around she’s referencing the 90’s and what “we” did. Can we move on already?