AUGUST 26, 1920

[RestoreGore]

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1900/a/august_26_wed.htm

As a woman, I am strong, beautiful, and proud. Proud to be a wife, a mother, an American, a world citizen, someone who has brought life into this world and nurtured it, and proud to be a fighter for the Democratic values all Democrats should hold dear... one of those values being tolerance for all. And though I do not wholeheartedly support Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in this, I am absolutely appalled at the words that have been spewed here on this board in the past hour. Anyone who dares to degrade women as I have seen here, read the link posted above. Try to understand the struggle women went through just to get the vote in 1920. What we have endured even since then along with the strides we have made to this day and understand how your degrading words hurt all women. While I may not agree with Hillary Clinton's policies on the whole, I do give her much credit as a woman for doing what no other woman has done. For taking that vote of August 26, 1920, and giving hope to other young women today that it was not in vain. Thank you.

[robbedvoter]

1. Thank you.

[BooScout]

2. Thank you.

:pals:

[MassLiberal]

3. I'm with you on this

Thanks for your post.

[shayes51]

4. Thank you.

[mculator]

5. I'm a man with you

And with my daughter. I don't want her to see a superior candidate lose just because she isn't a male. That is what is happening, and no amount of DU commentary will change facts.

[RestoreGore]

8. yes, I see it too

And the vitriol is over the line.

[Control-Z]

6. Thanks

:kick: and R

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. ???

Other women have run for President of the United States. Hillary Clinton is the first with a serious chance of being elected; she's definitely not the first, though. Other women who have been declared candidates for the presidency: Victoria Woodhull (1872, 1892); Belva Lockwood (1884, 1888); Margaret Chase Smith (1964); Shirley Chisholm (1972); Bella Abzug (1972); Patricia Schroeder (1984); and several others. And really...I think that the long legacy of feminism going back to women like Mary Wollstonecraft, Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and on through more Eleanor Roosevelt and more recent figures like Abzug and Chisholm, and the influence they and their ideas and example have had on society in general, are probably more inspirational than Senator Clinton, who is after all the inheritor of the long history of progress towards gender equality more than she is a feminist exemplar.

[RestoreGore]

9. It is the vitriol I am addressing

And I stand corrected. She is not the first to run for president, however, the first to get this close. That doesn't change the sexist innuendos and names expressed in this forum towards her. It is fine to debate and disagree with policy, but the namecalling does nothing to show that we as Democrats have progressed any in our tolerance of others. And I would stand to defend any such slurring of the other candidate if I saw the same, but again, it has been over the line regarding her. Hopefully, it has now been controlled.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. One can hope...

I find all the name-calling extremely distasteful, myself; the sexism evident here lately is beyond the pale, but there's been an awful lot of intolerance and vitriol from both sides, from what I've seen. As far as I'm concerned, if you have to resort to ad hominem in an argument, rather than debating the facts, you've lost.