Why do we still keep to the old Double Standard Time?

Let’s be real. This year’s Democratic presidential race is not about issues. Registered Dems agree they have two candidates running who appear to be decent, law abiding citizens. They both seem pretty suited for the job. But one candidate is a woman and the other a man. Let’s ignore for this article the part about the male candidate also being black. The gender issue alone is so layered with complexities and misogynist subtext, that to add Obama’s skin color as well to the mix would just be overkill. (Which speaks more to the point I was trying to make in my previous article, If I Wrote It, You Never Would Have Believed It)

Yes America. For the first time you have a female raising her hand in Social Studies class but not to ask to go to the little girl’s room. For the very first time she is asking to go to the White House as President and not as First Lady.

The right wing airwaves fill up on bird seed and water so they can pump out coo coo bird messages telling their audience to be afraid of the lady candidate, be very afraid. How can a female run a country? Her weight, clothes, cleavage, hair and make up have all become the butt of jokes made by humorless, pasty, rich white men. Rush Limbaugh in fact seriously asked his listeners to think long and hard if they could stomach watching a female president age before their very eyes! Who writes his stuff? And how does he get to maintain a gene pool of breathing people to listen to him everyday?

Talk about shock and awe!

As a member of this culture and historic time and place, I am in shock this line of non sequitur reasoning is still being bantered about - it’s 2008 people! Not 1908. We’ve gone to the moon and back already. When is this country going to grow up and stop listening to jabbermouths that only want to distract you from using your own critical thinking cap in order to form an opinion that may differ from what’s constantly spewed out of talk show hosts who couldn’t handle a real job in any other industry, nevermind enlist in the military.

And I stand in awe of third world countries who have primitive domestic lifestyles and are not sophisticated in the ways of the Prada, Gucci or Louis Vuitton world, yet they’re not burdened with a cultural bias or any mind numbing limitations on deciding whether or not to vote for a female to run their country on the sole basis of her governing skills and not how fat her ankles are.