So Feministing 'stole' another one of my stories and of course, they are getting all the action. ha! But I found this comment so brilliant and honest:

;"I'll take a person who doesn't know the system, who has a conscience"

See, TLF, here's where you and I part ways. I don't want some newbie who doesn't know how to work the system. I want an old hand who knows exactly where the bodies are buried. When I go in for surgery, I want someone who's done hundreds of surgeries before. And in a president, I want a politician who's been around long enough to build up juice and knows how to play the game. I don't mind corruption my elected officials; I expect corruption in my elected officials. What I want is for them to be corrupt and on my side.

Bold is mine.

Us Chicagoans aren't raised to expect a perfect candidate. Althou I have seen the expectation of perfection used to draw support away from an otherwise good candidate. Damned if you are, damned if you aren't.

Do we as feminists expect our candidates to be perfect? Or are we just expecting Hillary to be perfect?

And the scariest question...will Hillary's campaign cause a civil war within the feminist community? Will we be able to recover from calling each other traitors? Sell-outs? Revocation of our feminist cards?

Labels: feminism, feministcard, politics