One thing I think most women will agree about this election is the fact that we’re happy to see women have finally risen in political stature enough to have been considered for the two highest offices in the nation.
I’m not going to discuss my political views here, first of all, it’s not the time or the place. What I am addressing is the fact that if we, as women, want to play in the same arena as men, then we had better play by the rules. It’s not Okay because we wear skirts and lipstick to answer questions of supreme importance to not only our nation, but to the world at large, with answers that might be acceptable if we were vying for the title of Miss America and not for one of the highest and most powerful offices in the land.
Playing cute and coy won’t cut it anymore, unless we’re playing paper dolls and pretty, pretty princess in the playground with our fellow schoolmates. Hard questions demand hard, fact-filled responses. It doesn’t cut it to answer questions about foreign policy by fluttering your eye lashes while uttering flippant, sound bytes that basically come out sounding like, “I know everything there is to know about China because when I was a little girl I used to dig in my backyard till I almost fell through the rabbit hole and landed there.”
Flirtatious and Bimbo might cut it at a party or in the bedroom, but in the boardroom or when foreign policy and the peace of the world are at stake — I say, girlfriends — spend a little more time on homework, less on housework, and spare us the lipstick and doggie humor!