elfeminista wrote:EMPOWER. WOMEN. Only. Men are not your friends. Hillary would have beat that old man. Yes there is plenty wrong with her. But SHE
is for Women.
Well folks, I guess I'm voting Green this election, because the presidential and vice-presidential candidates are both progressive women, so it seems. Too bad they're not anti-pornstitution activists, from what I can tell, but it's nice to see two women of color chosen to be leaders of a party for starters.
McKinney says certain things that annoy me, like how her mother was a nurturer by Instinct--- ahh!!!! It's basic feminism 101 that being nurturing isn't a biological trait! I know she had good intentions when she said that, but I can't ignore it. Guess she needs to be educated on that.
Here's the video I'm watching... Clementa said the word "misogynist" at one point and they both mentioned women's rights, McKinney said quotes from Seneca Falls/ suffragists. McKinney talked about the wage gap between men and women. Here's the speech:
http://www.runcynthiarun .org/
The video is 50 minutes and 47 seconds long and it was the video from the Convention. It's somewhat inspiring, but also frustrating, because I see the gaps in the speech... like how they didn't say the word "patriarchy". I want them both to read the Gender Knot by Allan Johnson, then maybe they'll start thinking critically about patriarchy, cause just being pro-choice and pro-suffrage isn't enough, but they were saying amazing stuff besides that and I feel really good seeing a Puerto Rican woman and black woman in leadership positions.
The greens are not even looking to win the presidency... Greens just want a third party to be visible in the USA. So I'm voting McKinney/Clementa. I might have to write their names in though, if they don't show up on the paper ballot.