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Focused Hillary Read 3-5 minutes
“Why older women are so
enthusiastic about Hillary
By Melissa McEwan
The older women who
support Hillary Clinton are enthusiastic for her for all the reasons
anyone else is — and for the special and meaningful reason that she
validates their lives and has a voice that often goes unheard.
… Women, of course, are
not a monolith. Not all women support Clinton, and not all women who
do support her do so for the same reasons.
But among the older women
who support Clinton — and, depending on your own age, you may count
my 42-year-old self among them — are lots and lots of women who see
in Clinton a direct challenge to the habit of tossing away older
women, like so much useless rubbish.
Clinton has a voice. And
people listen to it. She has experience, which people respect. She
has knowledge, and it is widely valued.
This is not the typical
experience of older women, who are devalued at the intersection of
misogyny and ageism, and whatever other parts of their identity
(race, disability, body size, sexuality, gender) are used to devalue
us, too.
Witnessing Hillary
Clinton, an older woman, fight her way to get into the most exclusive
boys’ club on the planet, and seeing her succeed, inching
ever closer, is exciting. And more than that: It is validating.
Because older women know
they have value. It’s everyone else who seems to disagree.
… On a grand and very
visible scale, Clinton is living out the lives of women of her cohort
(and younger). We can see her obliged to navigate the same sort of
oppression and sneering and resistance that we experience every day.
We know she has navigated it for decades. She can’t walk away from
it, unless her path is to her bed with the covers drawn over her
head, any more than the rest of us can. It is the cost of our
womanhood.
And by simply refusing
to go away, no matter how many times she’s been defeated
or faced setbacks, Clinton stands to win the presidency as an older
woman. She stands to be one of the most important people on the
planet at an age when most women are struggling to be heard, to be
seen.
That is deeply moving to a
lot of older women, even when they can’t begin to articulate what,
exactly, it is that swells in their chests when they see her win
another debate, listen to her give another speech with a voice
cracking from overuse.
It’s the pleasure of an
older woman being heard. It’s the heartbreak of knowing how rare it
is. It’s the fear that she might not win. It’s the thrill that
she could.
It’s seeing someone who
has experienced some of the same things you have — some of the
things that have defined you, in the best and worst ways — on the
verge of the US presidency.
Millions of women have
been waiting our whole lives for a female presidential candidate —
not just any female presidential candidate, but one who
represents both our values and validates our experiences.
In Clinton, we not only
got a candidate who advocates for us, but the most qualified
candidate in the history of the nation to boot.
There are a whole lot of
women who are enthusiastic about that. … “
You
can read Melissa's story here
( Courtesy of Shareblue )
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