| [ USA ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): 구르미 (구르미) 날 짜 (Date): 2008년 1월 11일 금요일 오전 11시 56분 56초 제 목(Title): Re: NYTimes Op-ed: Women are never .. What was disappointing? The article itself? Or the reality in the U.S.? -- That article played gender card, which could be an excellant idea, but by tearing up race card, which the black candidate, Senator Obama Barak has been trying to not pick up. I think her arguments are weak at best and mostly twisted. --- If it's the article, I am curious why you felt that way. I saw little to disagree with the author. It wasn't like the author was supporting Ms. Clinton because of her gender. She said that she was for Ms. Clinton because of her experience (which has been the slogan for her campaign so far). --- The main thesis of her article is that "Hillary is not a front-runner because she is a woman", and that she is treated more harshly by media and the voters(at least in Iowa) than Obama is because she is a woman. As a matter of fact, she had long been considered as a front-runner by the media and most people. I have absolutely no problem with a female president. The gender problem is definitely a serious one to be adressed. Yes it is a sad reality in this country. Also women voting for a female candidate might be a good thing. What troubles me is that Senator Clinton is portrayed as having "an unprecedented eight years of on-the-job training in the White House, no masculinity to prove, the potential to tap a huge reservoir of this country’s talent by her example". Do you consider being a first lady as "on-the-job training in the WH"? What a joke! For sure, she inherited President Clinton's connection to party machines and established money train from big business interests such as drug companies, insurance companies and the like. As Maureen Dowd of the Times said, "But Hillary did feel she needed to prove her masculinity. That was why she voted to enable W. to invade Iraq without even reading the National Intelligence Estimate and backed the White House’s bellicosity on Iran." The Iran thing is getting more and more dangerous. Senator Clinton is a supporter of Israel, maybe more adamant one than President Clinton was. === Also, it is true that the blacks gained voting rights well before the women did in the U.S. Although the gender discrimination may not be as overtly displayed as before, I feel that that sentiment is still lingering at the back of the minds of many people in the U.S. I think that's the (sad?) reality in the U.S. === Well, legally speaking it is true that black men were allowed to vote well before the women. This factual statement is quite saddening. She conveniently ignores the fact that we are still witnessing so many cases of voting right disenfranchisement which is targeted (by Republicans) on the poors, the minorities, most of which are the black. There are 16 female US senators right now, two more compared to the previous term. Do you know how many black senators there have been so far? If you have an understanding of the sad reality in the US, very few black people were elected to high offices. Some black people takes the suggestion of VPOTUS Obama as an insult. A black bell boy serving a white master because POTUS should be older and female? That's the worst form of political tactic disguised as a feminist argument. In 1920, the 19th Amendment guaranteed women's suffrage. If you watched the movie, "The Great Debaters", in 1935 a black boy was lynched in front of the whole town-full of white people including men, women, and children watching the boy burned to death. And the law against the lynching was simply ignored by all levels of the local, state government and court. If she wanted to promote the feminist cause, she should have asked for a chance to be given to Senator Clinton to be judged soley by her own merit as a presidential candidate. Experience v.s. Unity argument can be a legitimate one, which is exactly Obama camp is engaged in. But she played "gender card" by comparing it with "race card". It's another example of dirty negative campaigns on the side of Clinton camp. |