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https://spectator.us/evening-bernie-bros/
If the media hadn't spent most of the last 2 years saying that a woman can't win, and had talked instead about what every candidate has to offer, it could have done a lot to dispel misogynist myths.
The media has probably been saying that a woman can't win because it was embarrassed by having said that President Trump wouldn't win. Instead of taking stock of its own failure to be accurate, the media has blamed gender, while continuing to ignore or deny the impact of the unofficial campaign of misogyny and the promotion of human rights abuses which the media had perpetrated for 6 years by 2016.
I was dreading Secretary Clinton winning in 2016, because of her supporters from the entertainment industry. By election night, I was resigned to the probability of her winning, and was glumly thinking about what the next several years of continuing to be tortured by those people would be like. I knew that their proximity to the White House would make them not only insufferable but even more dangerous, in their frivolity, ignorance, egotism, vanity and greed. It's one thing to have those qualities without social influence or access to power.
I can't say that I would do anything differently than I have since that election, although I wish that being abused for so many years hadn't ever impaired my judgment or emotional stability.
There's no reason that a woman can't be President, and it's overdue.
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In my experience, men like Senator Sanders don't tend to be overtly sexist. They would never say that a woman doesn't have the intellectual capacity of a man, and they would criticize any political opponent unwise enough to say such a thing. They would, however, take as fact the idea that a woman can't win a Presidential race in a certain political climate, without considering that it's their responsibility to support a political climate where the best candidate can win regardless of gender. Men like Senator Sanders are much more interested in progress for men like them than they are in progress for everyone.
Being irritable has its uses; knowing when to shut it off is important. I had the feeling that my boss was thinking about firing me literally the day before she found out that the store where I have worked since the end of August exceeded its December sales goal by almost 35%. As of yesterday, she limited me to texts of 3 or fewer sentences about things which I think are issues which nobody else has a problem with, but in the same conversation she also told me that the store is $6,000 ahead of schedule for January. 30 years of loss by whatever white-collar profession I might have attempted if I hadn't been hospitalized at 17 and subsequently made to feel that my previously high expectations were unrealistic are turning out to be customer service's gain.
Vermont is really cold. It's consistently colder than Boston. Irritability is sort've a way of life there.
