野次馬アメリカ大統領選挙

昨日の討論会でヒラリーが女性であることのアピールを控えたというのはこのような一件があったからかもしれないんですね。オルブライト元国務長官はさっそく弁明していました。“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”は「地獄に落ちるわよ」という脅しになるでしょうからまあ弁明しなければいけないのもわかります。それだけSandersの勢いが強くなって焦りがでているということでしょうか。

Madeleine Albright: My Undiplomatic Moment
By MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFEB. 12, 2016

I HAVE spent much of my career as a diplomat. It is an occupation in which words and context matter a great deal. So one might assume I know better than to tell a large number of women to go to hell.

But last Saturday, in the excitement of a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, that is essentially what I did, when I delivered a line I have uttered a thousand times to applause, nodding heads and laughter: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” It is a phrase I first used almost 25 years ago, when I was the United States ambassador to the United Nations and worked closely with the six other female U.N. ambassadors. But this time, to my surprise, it went viral.

フェミニストのグロリア・スタイナムも“When you’re young, you’re thinking: ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie,’ ”と言ったとか。。。こちらはサンダースを応援するのは頭の悪い尻軽女だと馬鹿にしているようなものですよね。。。

オルブライトさんはいつものエピソードを紹介して締めています。

A few years ago, not long after Hillary Clinton succeeded Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state, one of my granddaughters asked: “So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy being secretary of state? I thought only girls are secretary of state.”

My hope is that young women like my two granddaughters — those who have lived in a world where Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, who played school sports thanks to Title IX and who have never had to check “married” or “single” on a job application — will build on the progress we have made. But that will happen only if women help one another. And for those who do that, there will always be a special place of honor.

若者にとっては頑張って勝ち取ったというのもピンとこないし、そんなことがかっこ悪く感じてしまうのでしょうかねえ。個人的には8年間我慢したし、4年間はオバマ大統領を支えてきたヒラリーさんに大統領になってもらいたいですが、そんな感想を持つ自体が自分も古い世代に属しているのかもしれません（苦笑）