I relate easily to the points made in that article. I'm 34 yrs old, and work in a male-dominated profession. I'm neither beautiful nor homely, average height, average weight. I've actually seen as much or more discrimination against MEN as women: on the basis of weight, looks, height, accent, religion, and sexual orientation.
I know my mother and her generation have a very different take on such things than do I. I have only read about what it was like in the 1950s, 1960s when women were first making a lot of the strides, and I know that I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.
But even in my profession -- where, yes, indeed, I've seen discrimination against women solely because they are women -- I don't think I've seen any gender discrimination that was, on the whole, greater than the general discrimination that men and woman face just because they have characteristics that are "different" from the preference of the majority.
And I have never seen against women (here in the U.S.) the kind of physical mayhem based solely on gender that we've seen against African Americans, like the man who was dragged to death in Texas sefveral year ago and Rodney King episodes and some other police brutality against blakcs and Hispanics in New York City.
Rape of course is a major problem and major vulnerability for us, but RAPE seems to me to be a function of hormones, psychosis, sickness, and very bad aggressive behavior by plainly BAD people who happen to be men, and only incidentally a matter of GENDER per se.
I support Obama as does the majority of my female friends and co-workers (all in our 20s, 30s, early 40s). He, it seems to me, will be there to represent BOTH racial minorities AND women (who are not a minority per se, but who are sometimes thought of as a minority), whereas Hillary seems to me to put those "rights of minorities" issues at a lower level of importance than does Obama. It's very hard for me to think that someone who got into Wellesley and Yale, becamse a lawyer and then wife of a state governor, adn then First Lady, and then U.S. Senator has much actual experience with the glass ceiling or the plight of the average woman.
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