Women and voting and Hillary Clinton and feminism

No, I’m not going to write a big long meaningful post about it. I have little credibility as a Woman or a feminist.

My awesome girlfriend, however, has plenty. Go read her post on The Big Blog. Here’s a teaser:

Barack Obama was acting as quite the gentleman toward Hillary Clinton in the last couple debates. Right before the debate began, he pulled out her chair and waited for her to sit. When it ended, he got up from his seat, pulled her chair out and waited for her to stand.

In one gesture, viewers were reminded of Clinton’s gender — an inescapable mark of difference that has played a complex role on the campaign trail and has many American women, like me, wondering what, if anything, her candidacy calls us to do.