Hating Hillary doesn’t make me Anti-Feminist.

Author: Cristy
Filed under: Politics

Monday
May 26,2008

I have never seen so much political drama in my life since I developed a burning hatred for Hillary, and turned my support to Obama.

Honestly. I used to be a huge Hillary supporter. HUGE. I voted for her in NY and I was hoping she would run for President. Right before the official announcement, I started to get iffy about her, but I was still pleased when the official announcement was made. Every day since then, I have hated her, more and more as time went on.

Yesterday, a friend told me that I was betraying women and that I could no longer call myself a feminist because I chose to put my support behind a man. I let her know that the only anti-feminist within our discussion was her, and her attempt to oppress my views and force me to put my political support by someone I do not believe in just because she has a vagina.

Today another friend told me that if Obama doesn’t get the nomination, and I don’t vote for Hillary, that I am a hypocrite and shouldn’t vote at all.

I am NOT a democrat. When I first registered to vote, yes.. I did register as a democrat. I was 18. 10 years ago. I have since realized that I do not want to vote for a party. I want to vote for the best candidate who I believe will do the best job for this country as a whole, not just for me. While my choices do tend to run to the democrats, this isn’t always the case. Every candidate has views that I disagree strongly with. The only person who could ever match me 100%, would be if I ran for President myself.

California allows people to register as undeclared, so that’s what I am. I am not allowed to vote in primaries, which is silly, I think. There are states that allow everyone to vote in all the primaries, which I think would fit me well - I would vote for the best person in each party, IMO, for the job.

Anyway, if for some horrible, terrible reason, Hillary gets the nom, I will not be voting for her. Take away my feminist card, call me stupid, lob personal attacks on me, I don’t care. I would rather see John McCain as our president than Hillary Clinton. I don’t know who I will vote for - yet. I will need to look deeper, but I will most likely vote Green - I do know that I will not participate in electing her, period.

4 Responses for "Hating Hillary doesn’t make me Anti-Feminist."

Erica May 27th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Well said. As a Canadian I won’t weigh in on the political aspects you’ve mentioned, but I completely agree that you are not being anti-feminist.

The way I see it, feminism is as much about a woman’s right to choose potential leaders of their countries (be they male or female) as it is about supporting women in these roles.
Word Perv May 27th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Okay, so the question then is WHY don’t you like Hillary? You clearly stated your hatred for her, and that is fine for you to feel this way, but you don’t explain WHY you no longer like her as a politician.
Cristy May 28th, 2008 at 11:14 am
OP By Word Perv

Okay, so the question then is WHY don’t you like Hillary? You clearly stated your hatred for her, and that is fine for you to feel this way, but you don’t explain WHY you no longer like her as a politician.

I have actually discussed this in-depth, but I can’t find my post so I think I might have posted it to Livejournal and neglected to crosspost it here. (Whoops!)

I am without computer at home until next week (woo, new macbook!) so it’s difficult for me to get here being swamped at work, but I’ll try to drudge up the post so I don’t have to retype it.
Cristy May 28th, 2008 at 11:15 am
OP by Erica
Well said. As a Canadian I won’t weigh in on the political aspects you’ve mentioned, but I completely agree that you are not being anti-feminist.

The way I see it, feminism is as much about a woman’s right to choose potential leaders of their countries (be they male or female) as it is about supporting women in these roles.

Exactly. And feel free to weigh in. I’m not one of those folks who thinks that only American people are allowed to discuss American politics. I think that’s silly! I know some people get all riled up over shit like that, though.