Please excuse my ramblings, I just wanted to get these concerns off my chest.
I've had some disagreements lately with people I usually never disagree with, mainly my Mother, my Grams, and my Aunties. It's really been bothering me, so I've decided I'd write this diary to try to make some sense out of it all.
I come from a family full of pretty amazing no nonsense women. I remember canvassing for Geraldine Ferraro with my Mother, Grandmothers, and Aunties when I was 6 years old... and even if I didn't remember it, there's pictures to remind me. It was a big deal, a woman running for Vice-President... They still talk about how having had a woman run for Vice-President had meant the world had changed.
I remember it clearly, after all these years. Both the women I knew and the women out there with us that I didn't know; all of them telling me that I should remember this. That this was history and it meant I could do anything I wanted to do and I could be anything I wanted to be when I grew up; even become President of the United States if that's what I wanted.
And yet it's been 24 years, the majority of my entire life... and we still haven't had a female President or Vice-President. So how much of their high hopes have really come to fruition?
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