Did you think that Wellesley would be a bastion of support for its most famous alumna?
Interestingly, the Washington Post reports that the feminist vote at the prestigious women's college is split:
"Everybody who knows me thinks of me as a feminist," Keller said. "Nobody imagined I wouldn't vote for Clinton."
"Three weeks ago, Keller changed her online profile to announce her support for Obama. She likes his rhetoric and his stance on the war, she said, and she considers his effort to become the first black president as historic as Clinton's bid. Within a few days, a handful of Wellesley friends had called or e-mailed to teasingly call her a traitor.
"‘It's like I'm ruining this great opportunity for women by not voting for her, but honestly I'm not too worried about that,' Keller said. ‘I don't think gender is a good enough reason on its own to vote for or against anybody. I'm sure there are going to be other women in my generation, soon, who are able to run for president. This isn't like our only chance.'
"Her stance is what some professors on campus refer to as an ‘inevitability attitude,' and they say it marks a generational divide. Women who experienced Wellesley in the 1950s and '60s, such as Clinton, enrolled at a time when some schools still refused to admit women. They believed, intrinsically, that they would have to scrap and claw for every opportunity in an unfair world. Wellesley functioned as their cocoon, a place for camaraderie and support before they were sent off as graduates to break barriers and challenge stereotypes. As feminists, they were linked by a cause."
If the campus feminists are split, older alums may be more solidly behind Hillary:
"My mom didn't like hearing me talk about Obama much at all," Neff said. "She started telling me about how our generation takes for granted a lot of advances that women have made. She told me what it was like in the '70s and '80s and, you know, the general feeling that you were never as good or as important as your brothers or the men who you worked with. She talked about how women's stakes are so tied up in Hillary's candidacy, and how it could change what it means to be a woman and what all these little girls will think is possible in their own lives."
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Carbonel | January 16, 2008, 4:30am | #
And yet, somehow, none of these women know the name "Margaret Thatcher."
For lefties, it seems, some women are more female than others...
dave | January 16, 2008, 9:52pm | #
i would think that a true feminist would run from a vote for Clinton. Just her mariage alone, how strong is a woman that allows her husband to do the things he has done? Do you really want someone with not enough backbone to stand up to her husband and what is right, to be able to stand up America? I think if you are truly an intellectual you would see how insane a vote for clinton would really be.
Lisa | January 17, 2008, 10:02pm | #
Does Hillary have the backbone to stand up for America, when she did not stand up to Bill for his non-presidential activities while he was in office?
No! But, Hillary did have her own personal agenda to see come true...so she had to support Bill.
Hillary's Agenda then :
1.) Learn the business of Politics
2.) Consider being a Senator when we leave the White House. (note to self: pick a state, any state)
3.) Consider being the first female President of America. (note to self: I have wanted this since Wellesley...I was class President there)
4.) Get us in the History Book. (note to self: How?...see 1,2 and 3)
Hillary's Agenda Now:
1.) I MADE IT! THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA!
2.) Start writing what I want to be said in the History Books.
2.) Start grooming Chelsea to be a Senator, then President
WE ARE DOOMED!