In the months and years leading up to the most recent presidential election, you may have heard me say,“There is no question we will have a female president someday, I just hope it’s not her.”

Hillary Clinton didn’t get votes like mine; not because of her gender, because of who I observed her to be.

There is a subtle feeling of hypocrisy that creeps into the ongoing conversation about gender on the national level. Singling a woman out as the first to do something or talking about how great it is to see a woman in a specific position feels like a fail for feminism in my mind.

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