Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Madam President

India elected it's first female president. Today she was inaugurated. I applaud yet another country having the ability to elect women into top leadership positions. Especially when the United States is slow to do it. This is a day for women across the world to celebrate....cautiously, however.

''She was chosen for her loyalty and has moved from one post to another because of that same loyalty,'' said Madhu Kishwar, the editor of Manushi, a feminist and human rights magazine. ''I have always believed that it's not everything to just have sari-wearing creatures in politics. It's more important that politics stands for and enables honest, upright people to survive. But sycophancy is the only token that works,'' she added.


Which further proves my philosophy that having a vagina doesn't necessarily mean you're pro-woman.

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