Am I sexist in my position that I would not vote for a woman for President based solely on the fact that she is a woman? Does it make me a traitor to my sex that I would not vote for a woman for President based solely on the fact that she is a woman? Am I alone in my position that I would not vote for a woman for President based solely on the fact that she is a woman?
Women’s Studies or War Studies? October 7, 2007
In first reading the blog (http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com), I would have thought the author was speaking about an American life. She seemed to have the same love for the home she grew up in and the memories that were made. I don’t happen to hold the same regard for the house I grew up in; mine is a much more sickening feeling. But, nonetheless, family and home in Baghdad don’t appear any different than they do in America. At least, when it comes to how one feels only about their very own home, their very own family, their very own life. Family and home are almost synonymous when you are young, and losing one almost creates a sense of losing the other. I find it very interesting that the author speaks of pre-war Baghdad as a place that harvested no apparent violence or prejudice. I didn’t know where Baghdad was, much less did I know the different “races,” if you will, of people who were supposed to hate each other before this war began. Reminds me of growing up in Bowie. I wasn’t raised to see color differences – now I think it very strange because I wasn’t raised with any color differences. But I guess hatred for people other than your type is something that can be easily exploited if any small group of people decide that it is the reason something bad happened in the world. Funny that the people who are supposed to be the haters don’t harbor the feeling, or at least didn’t in the beginning.
I recently (as in yesterday) experienced a great family meeting with as potentially life-changing outcomes as the author in discussing options of leaving their home. Of course, my family is not trying to decide whether or not to leave our home, but we are having to convene as a whole, as a collective attempt to bring about some positive change from a life-threatening situation. Family decisions about life and death situations don’t seem to be any different across borders, across boundaries, across religions, across races, across languages, and so forth. If a family is in a crisis, the family bonds together to overcome the situation so that as much good as possible can come from a bad time.
I do think it is very sad that women are being treated so harshly, so inhumanely in the face of this war. I just have one thing to say – wake up, sister. This shit is going on in America too.
