Giving Credit To The Ladies

THOSE OF A CERTAIN AGE will remember Gloria Steinem from the nineteen sixties and seventies, the radical feminist who fought, and still fights, for women's rights. Isn't she the one who once said that a woman needs a man no more than a fish needs a bicycle, or something like that? She's in her eighties now, but feistier than ever. Gloria, and many of her feminist ilk, seem to believe that the proper and matriotic thing for all American women to do is to support Hillary Clinton for president. Granted, there is a certain logic in this, but in truth, although Hillary indeed has her lioness's share of the female vote, and might become president with women's support, all the other candidates, including the republicans, including Cruz and Trump, have a fair share of women supporting them as well. It would seem that American woman have diverse political beliefs, based on far more than simply gender affiliation. Fifty one or two percent of American voters are female, so its a relevant issue. The female gender can make or break any politician. It could be argued that we all, as good citizens, should choose our candidates based on issues and values, rather than gender, in this supposedly enlightened era of gender equality, but, what the hell. Gloria further says that girls who support Bernie Sanders are there because that's where the boys are. Whatever. The news, Gloria, is that the boys are not with Bernie, but rather, with Trump, and Cruz, and Rubio. Plenty of girls there too. Isn't Gloria being a bit, um, self defeating by assuming that any American woman who does not support Hillary Clinton has some really base motive for not doing so? C'Mon, Miss Steinem. With all due respect for your accomplishments, your spirit and all, maybe you should give your fellow members of the American female gender credit for being somewhat more liberated and enlightened than you might think. After all, aren't you the one who helped make them that way?