Chelsea
Clinton says we
need a woman in the White House:
“We
need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White
House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls
everywhere can then think: You know what? I can do that. I want to do that. I
will do that.”
With
all due respect to Chelsea Clinton, I’m getting really, really sick of that
mode of thinking.
First
off, we do have women in politics and business and positions of power. And
guess what? They screw things up just as much as the men!
Putting
a woman in the highest echelon of American politics isn’t going to make any
positive change, any more than electing the first African American president or
having a white man in office did.
What
we need is people of integrity. Forget their gender. Forget their race.
Stop
focusing on factors they had no control over and start paying attention to
their decisions and their character.
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