This is the blog for History 175, Women and Politics in America, Claremont McKenna College, fall 2016. It is open only to members of the class. Please post items relevant to the themes of our course, and please comment on other posts as well. Check back regularly for updates!
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Her Loss - Collection of NYTimes Opinions
Some of you may have seen this already, but these are a series of extremely moving and well-written opinion articles from New York Times staff. This paragraph from the first really spoke to me (and I think it will resonate with a lot of you too) in describing the emotion that came after Hillary's loss:
"I cried because I want my daughters to feel that blazing pride, that affirmation of their boundless capacity — not from their husbands, but from their world, from the atmosphere, from inviolable wells of certainty inside themselves. I cried because it’s not fair, and I’m so tired, and every woman I know is so tired. I cried because I don’t even know what it feels like to be taken seriously — not fully, not in that whole, unequivocal, confident way that’s native to handshakes between men. I cried because it does things to you to always come second."
Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/her-loss
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