Reply #101: I guess your idea of a feminist and mine are different. A feminist [View All]

[roguevalley]

in my book is someone who takes care of their obligations, their family, their community, pays their bills, does their best and votes. They don't have to have a lot of elaborate ideas about the world. They are fair and just in their treatment of others and they love and serve their country. they don't have to be from vassar, most aren't. My grandpas were feminists and so were my parents. They didn't know it had a name but they knew about responsible behavior and caring for others. They wouldn't take shit from anyone because of gender or color. My mother slapped a man's face in public because of the n-word. My dad used to give black people his seat on the bus in Portland back in the 30's and 40's because they were women or older people and even though he was a small man, he would get into fights over a principle. You would not be able to buy or bribe their values away. They believed in fairness and justice. They were not college graduates, they were working class people with the biggest hearts and the clearest vision of anyone I've ever known.

Neither of them supported Hillary's run because they didn't believe her platform after the war vote. It takes actions to be something. Anyone can spew words about what they are or believe. Hillary can say she is a feminist until hell freezes over but for me, she isn't. Her actions speak louder. Her actions speak of desperation, a sense of entitlement that smacks of privilege and a willingness to forget that people matter in her path to what she feels is her due. Those little businesses depend on bills being paid. It is not a feminist trait to screw others. She is no one I want to know. As for the past, some of us actually lost people inside and out of our families and friends over defending them. Too bad.