Seeing Hillary Clinton reminded me why women shouldn't get over it [View all]

[niyad]

Seeing Hillary Clinton reminded me why women shouldn't get over it

if you go to Wing facebook page, you can watch the video (Not on facebook, cannot access video

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1617547371675622&id=992251174205248&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&_rdr)

(and this link has lots of pics to the event
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/entertainment/hillary-clinton-speaks-at-the-wing-soho%2C-new-york-2018-04-03)



It’s painful to recall that the world’s dumbest man was elected over a most qualified woman, but hope is a danger for the right



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Hillary Clinton speaks at the Wing SoHo in New York, New York, on 3 April 2018. Photograph: Angela Pham/BFA/Rex/Shutterstock



This week, I got to see Hillary Clinton speak to a crowd of 600 women when she made an appearance at the women-only social club the Wing. It was strange to watch this brilliant, knowledgeable woman and know that she could have been our president right now. It was painful, actually. And I wasn’t the only one who felt it – women in the room were openly shedding tears as she spoke. Seeing her was a reminder to many, I think, that we’ve made so little progress that the world’s dumbest and most awful man could win the presidency over the world’s most qualified woman.

But somehow getting to listen to her talk in a room with only women also made me hopeful. So often women are told to keep quiet and get over it – even Clinton, who has been harangued by rightwing media and told to disappear even as they talk about her nearly every day. For a few minutes, we got to be sad together without anyone telling us to suck it up. By the time we left, though, we were angry and inspired – a far more dangerous combination for the right.