Jennifer Rubin is a reminder of why I don’t support a woman just because she is a woman. What are her politics? I don’t want a woman in power just because she is a woman. I want a woman who dismantles not upholds patriarchy.
Take Gina Haspel, head of the CIA: My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because a woman, not a man, carries it out. google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
We must ask more than “Can a woman be president?” Or Vice President? We must ask equally pertinent questions: Is that woman feminist? Is she invested in dismantling patriarchy? Will she use her power to uphold or diminish patriarchy? google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
Remember Governor Kay Ivey, who signed the “Human Life Protection Act,” the most stringent abortion bill in the United States, and who continues to approve executions, including Nathaniel Woods whose sister confronted her:
“You killed my brother.”
“You killed my brother.”
And I say of all that knowing full well that MISOGYNY IS FOUNDATIONAL TO US ELECTORAL POLITICS - on the left, the middle, the right.
Patriarchy too often throws women crumbs in return for limited form of power. Patriarchy will allow a few women into places they’ve not been allowed before & call it progress and demand that we not point out that power remains in the hands of those throwing us crumbs.
I don’t want crumbs; I want the whole cake, and I want to bake it myself. I want, as June Jordan wrote, “to invent the power my freedom requires.”
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In conclusion and a reminder: Jennifer Rubin is a Republican, I believe. Her party has already done the woman-as-VP thing. 
