The Morning After
printed courtesy of the politically savvy femmerotic.com
- By Heather Corinna
Katha Pollitt commented sagely in the Nation that, "It's perfectly fair to attack Nader...[B]ut it's absurd and kind of pathetic for Toby Moffett and the "Nader's Raiders for Gore" to wring their hands and beg Nader to step aside for the good of the country--it would make more sense to beg Gore to address the concerns of Nader voters. It would even make more sense for them to address--since Gore isn't doing the job--the fence-sitters who are moving toward Bush: pro-choice women, for instance, who think Bush isn't serious about working to limit abortion (an illusion not shared by the Christian Coalition, one might add), and union men who are having trouble choosing between their guns and their job protection. "
I agree with Pollitt. Last night, in an all-female mailing list mainly composed of urban, feminist, progressive and primarily leftist women, a lone female "moralist" stuck her neck out to say that as a business owner, how could she NOT support Bush? Of course, if she's, say, a gay female business owner, a woman who needs an abortion, or a parent who doesn't want their child indoctrinated with "faith-based" lessons in their afterschool care, there are plenty of reasons she couldn't support him and his agenda (whether or not he can make some or much of it come to fruition). That we have seen women voting for this man outside the Bible Belt says a whole lot, and it may say less about how strong a candidate Bush was than it does about how poor a candidate Gore was, and about the state of our nation right now as a whole.
Watching this election unfold was like watching a house on fire. If you're not a fireman, all you can do is know your house may burn to the ground, or burn in part, some of it remaining intact but blackened, but in either case, it isn't good. And in either case, there's really nothing one can do, especially if you are in a state where your vote is essentially meaningless because of the electoral college.
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ABOUT HEATHER
Heather Corinna is the Editor of Scarlet Letters: A Journal of Femmerotica, Femmerotic and Scarleteen, three highly lauded sexuality sites. Her work has been applauded by the Kinsey Institute, Yahoo!, Playboy, AVN, the San Francisco Weekly, the Boston Phoenix, The Minneapolis City Pages, and other venues. She has written on sex and sensibility for numerous internet and print publications and anthologies, and she was an honorary speaker on freedom of speech and sexuality for the Illinois Library Assocation last year.
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