While I agree that America itself might be ready for a female president, I'm not sure that Washington is. I think there's still plenty of Old Boys Club going on, sad to say.
Plus, it can't be denied that there was some pretty blatant sexism in the media coverage of Clinton's campaign - she got roasted plenty of times just for being a woman, rather than for being an unacceptable candidate, and that's too bad -- I worry that it will be that much harder for the next prominent female candidate, especially if people really buy into this America's Not Ready thing (which you correctly identified as being entire geological strata of crap).
Of course, I am also of the opinion that there are large bits of America who are not ready for a black president (which might win me some sort of award for Understatement of the ________). My response to them is that they'd better effing get used to the idea.
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Plus, it can't be denied that there was some pretty blatant sexism in the media coverage of Clinton's campaign - she got roasted plenty of times just for being a woman, rather than for being an unacceptable candidate, and that's too bad -- I worry that it will be that much harder for the next prominent female candidate, especially if people really buy into this America's Not Ready thing (which you correctly identified as being entire geological strata of crap).
Of course, I am also of the opinion that there are large bits of America who are not ready for a black president (which might win me some sort of award for Understatement of the ________). My response to them is that they'd better effing get used to the idea.