Hillary's Stumble - A Warrior's Cry

[complain jane]

Last edited Tue Sep 13, 2016, 01:57 AM - Edit history (1)

...Over time, more women found their way into the meetings, and I was no longer the youngest. And while we no longer cleared the dishes, I knew to keep my thoughts private, my vulnerabilities under lock-and-key, and my eyes focused straight ahead.

Twice in the last two years, I’ve pushed through the nagging cough that became the hacking cough that became the fever, bronchitis, and eventually pneumonia. I didn’t take a day off. I didn’t postpone client deadlines. I believed I could power through because I had to. That’s what we do. We keep going. We get it done. And we keep the vulnerability, the fear, the aching chest and wheezing breaths to ourselves.

This morning, we watched a woman stumble on a sidewalk because she was doing what we’ve been trained to do — to keep going, to be there for our people, to get the job done. In that moment, we saw her at her strongest — the woman who gets it done — and we caught a rare glimpse of her vulnerability.

What we do next — how we talk about it, how we slice and dice and parse the innuendo and dog whistle sexism that already swirls in this campaign — that’s the message we send to our daughters and daughters-in-law and our granddaughters. If you’re a woman, getting sick isn’t an option. It’s a sign of weakness. And that’s simply not acceptable anymore.

This little snippet doesn't do it justice. It's a great article. I had to leave it at this because of the 4-paragraph copyright limit.

https://medium.com/PowellBerger/hillarys-stumble-a-warrior-s-cry-6d1d2f86fbac#.f4j2q4dc8