Friday, April 13, 2007

Absorb those pants for a moment

And then read the article from the NY Times because it's really good. Some noteworthy quotes include the following:

"Hillary was speaking for all of us, for a generation that felt we weren't being heard."

"Mrs. Clinton's struggles as the first woman in her Arkansas law firm, and then first lady of Arkansas resonate with her classmates, too, in their own battles as "first woman" in workplaces dominated by men, trying to navigate what now seem like quaint battles over whether a woman can take a business trip with a man, or whether a pregnant professor should get tenure."

"I hear these anti-Hillary attacks by men, especially right-wing men, and I feel like it's just as much an attack on me...It's an effect of intelligence that you come across as intense, that you have strong views. I've always felt that the way she is singled out and attacked is very indicative of how society reacts to smart women."

"Most of the Wellesley women have watched with sadness as the Hillary they knew changed from a passionate and outspoken figure to a more guarded and careful one as she put her husband's political career first."

"If you spend your adult life in the public eye...you necessarily have to create a kind of protection, a caution, that will lead to the perception that you're joyless or calculating..."

3 comments:

B. E. Busby said...

Dear ESQ2B:

You want pants, Hell, I got yer whole ensemble right cheer:

http://busbang.org/chaz_wear.jpg

Those red things are better than the Big Dogs Gas Co. ones I got in Vacaville.

As to the political side... I'm a staunch Republican but have been swung to the Obama side... just listening to this guy is refreshing. I'm particularly attracted by his LACK of connectivity to the respective "machines." (I know that sounds very Chicago, but it appears ever so true).

Unknown said...

An Obama fan, eh? I would prefer an Obama with a tad more experience. My objections to him is that
1. he's too green
b) policy-wise he hasn't given us a lot of substance
3-I'm afraid without more connections and a deeper understanding of how things work in Washington, he won't be able to be an effective leader for change

That being said, should he be the one who emerges from the convention with the nomination, he'll get my vote. There's no one on the other side of the aisle I can even remotely consider voting for. <sigh>

Trina said...

Thanks for pointing me to that article. I loved it!