It is strange to see thousands of men sob and riot in the streets for a woman who they hoped would lead their country again. Clearly there were many who hated her, and they obviously succeeded in killing her, but it's amazing to me how Benazir Bhutto can garner such passionate following of an Islamic country when so many people here balk at the thought of a woman even running for President. Hopefully no one's going to blast Hillary Clinton and her followers into pieces, and I don't think they will. It is just a jarringly different image than I am used to. I usually complain that the media portrays Muslim men as usually demonstrating in the streets, waving their guns above their heads as they carry the bodies of their martyred cousins. Now we see them weeping, carrying the coffin of a woman (of all people), after she preached democracy.
And where are we here in the United States, when it comes to female leaders? Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Benazir Bhutto...just off the top of my uninformed head. WHERE ARE WE? Why have we not reached this point when that milestone is already reached by other places, for most of them, decades in the past? Other places outside of the Western world, outside of the developed world...
I do not necessarily support Hillary Clinton, or any of the candidates as of yet, but it makes me wonder. Ooooh, it makes me wonder...
