I thought we should have a post on the blog that celebrates what happened last night. We all have our misgivings about Hillary and how committed she’ll be to the issues we believe in. And, as I noted somewhere else in this blog, she often manages to be as ineluctable as Nixon and as charismatic as Walter Mondale.
And, we all are so used to working with women in all types of senior executive roles, that it’s easy to just say, sure, why not a woman nominated for president. But, A WOMAN JUST BECAME A MAJOR PARTY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
And, last night, she really stepped into it and reminded people why this is an emotional and historic moment. Between the San Diego speech and this one, I am becoming optimistic that she can be a more inspiring figure than we thought.
In at The End of The World 
“we all are so used to working with women in all types of senior executive roles”: that resonates. I’m 61. I noticed on a job about ten years ago, when I was a mere 50ish, that I expected women to have lead roles, and that certain boss-type men who were then about 60 did not have that expectation, thought of themselves as super-liberal but were really fundamentally uncomfortable in dealing with women that way, especially younger women. Because I started in education, a “feminized profession,” I had female bosses starting in my twenties. As a “creative” in the digital (therefore young) ad-and-marketing game, I had female execs to submit work to, both internally and on the client side, and almost all were younger than me. If you couldn’t deal with that, you couldn’t work — made it easy. But it’s incredibly screwed up that we are somewhat unusual in this way. And on the macro level, Britain had a female head of state in the 1980’s! This is an amazing moment, but definitely not on the order of “America once again shows the world the way.” It’s amazing because, on balance, something deeply messed-up is being overcome, against a lot of pushback.
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Good point. I can’t get too too excited – a mutual friend asked if we would celebrate Carly, Sarah P, or Thatcher . . . but you’re right, we probably should on some level. Thanks for the reminder.
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yeah, I’m not that excited either. Certainly not how I was when Obama won Iowa and then every other thing on the way to the White House. What if Colin Powell had run and secured the Republican nomination before Obama? That would have really taken the wind out of our sails.
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