2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy older women are so enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton
The older women who support Hillary Clinton are enthusiastic for her for all the reasons anyone else is and for the special and meaningful reason that she validates their lives and has a voice that often goes unheard.
This is, of course, entirely false. A candidate does not get to be a major partys presidential nominee if they inspire little enthusiasm and Clinton certainly wouldnt break a 227-year barrier against female nominees if there was no enthusiasm for her candidacy.
One of the ways this narrative has been perpetuated is simply by invisibilizing the evident enthusiasm with which she is greeted at every campaign stop. A browse through her Flickr account shows a campaign that looks very different from what we are typically shown by the corporate media.
It also matters that among her legions of enthusiastic voters are countless older women, whose representation across all media is inexcusably scant. It is important to acknowledge that Clinton has commanding support from older women especially Black women.
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Older women occupy a very particular space in our culture a space frequently defined by an abandonment of listening. Rather than valuing the lived experiences of older women, and the wisdom those lives have imparted, we turn away from them, dismissing them as irrelevant; we neglect to listen, just at the moment where they may offer insights most profoundly worth listening to.
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crazylikafox
(2,762 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)This old man empathizes fully.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)sheshe2
(83,940 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)sheshe2
(83,940 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)Said with an Irish lilt!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)Take away the hair coloring and they could be the same age.
And "That's a good thing!"
And I am WAY ENTHUSIASTIC!!
Gonna canvass in NH tomorrow.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Hekate
(90,846 posts)The culture perpetuates this every day, especially media driven by visual images. We exist in the male gaze -- young, nubile -- until we don't.
It's a counter-cultural act to reject this point of view. Thank you to all the men who stand with all the women who stand with Hillary Clinton and see her as a leader.
Enthusiastic for Hillary? Oh, yes.
It's the hope that Hillary will change the way older women are viewed.
I am an older woman and I can't wait until Trump has to say "Madam President"! LOL
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Greywing
(1,124 posts)It only begins to express how I am feeling as an older woman of 60!
nolabear
(41,991 posts)We are enthused! And we vote!