MEN WON’T VOTE FOR MOMMY
The failure of Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination for President proves what I believed from the get-go.
It has little to do with the stand taken by either candidate on real
issues—a malevolent war, a collapsing economy, people dying for lack of a doctor’s care—all of this is beside the point. The point
is: there are more misogynists than racial bigots in our country.
Men who believe that women are the “second sex,” not brainy enough, not tough enough, not aggressive enough and…well…not crafty enough to run a country as big and rich and powerful as ours did not vote for Hillary, and yet the two candidates held near-similar views.
Hillary did the best a woman could do wearing her pants suit and “playing man” without coming off as unattractively
hard-nosed… or even gay. “Not that there’s anything wrong
with that” as Seinfeld so memorably said. But if some men won’t vote
for a woman, they certainly will not vote for a gay as President
of a country where so many men—even men in bespoke suits-- wear imaginary hard-hats and spit in the gutter.
I am amazed that Hillary Clinton did as well as she did. No, astounded is the word. It suggests that one distant day before the sun blazes out women may achieve real equality with men.
Just as young men in a position to hire someone will pass over a qualified woman for a qualified or, perhaps, even less qualified man. Too many men don’t want to work with women as peers or near-peers.
If the female applicant is older than the man behind the desk, she is already half way out the door. Men took orders from Mommy long enough. Now they are calling the shots.
“I’ll call you again on Sunday, Mom.”
9:49:02 AM 
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