I am very excited for your enthusiastic participation in the process. Every voter deserves the dignity and opportunity to exercise their right to vote. You should be commended for your efforts. Thank you for introducing Americans to one of their most precious of rights. As your previous post suggests, my candidate and her views are askew from the rest of the nation. Your insults to the millions who saw it differently however, have the right to dissent from yours and others opinions. Afterall, it is our right as Americans is it not? Most Obama supporters in the media and here on OC have demonized us and have inferred that we are either racists, sexists or just plain ignorant. No, my vote isn't being manipulated in that fashion. The most popular candidate wasn't selected. Nothing that you can say will change that reality. I hope for Senator - soon to be President - Obama much success in the coming months. I believe that Hillary will sincerely endorce and fully participate in his campaign for president. Bill and others will rally behind him as well. As for those supporters that say they will vote for McCain well, they have been condescended to too often by the media and Obama supporters. How many times should you face defeat before you surrender? Better still, your elected officials tell you what's better for you than you deciding for yourself. What's wrong with defiantly declining to participate?
I'm just sayin'.....

Ok.
First in english :

Erin, i hope you are second degree with the Segolenist resume : i mean, ok Segolene Royal (Segolene Kingy (i did'nt write Kinky lol) is gorgeous, chic smart, have nice nipples and legs but she's also brave, and resistant, she get authoritie and is also able to listen to people and understand them.

The fact is that in France,our president is elected by every french people aged of more than 18 and registered on electoral lists (it means,i guess, to have one's citizen rights still available). It's quite a huge mass of potential voters.Even there is usually and with time more and more abstentionism, in 2007, where we had for the first time a woman (Segolene Royal) wo get through the first round (for presidential vote there are two rounds)and faced Nicolas Sarkozy, it can be noticed than the level of abstentionism was below the two last presidential elections (only 16% of voters did'nt vote). So this election hit the interest of french people.
At the end, Segolene Royal get 46,94 % / Sarkozy 53,06 % !

For me, it is a terrible thing Sarkozy wins this election. And sometimes i wonder about failure in democratic system : i mean, the power of decision is given to every citizen, but most of them don't have any political culture or interest in and only decides for whom they are going to vote on silly criteria. And one of those criterium is most of the time how nice is the tie's colour or the physical beauty. It doin't deny a sexual and incarnate dimension in politics, but if it was the single aspect, (and it is for many voters) in France we should have elected Madam Royal, just because Mister Sarkozy is really uggly, short with one shoulder higher than the other, full of nervous crispy movement on his face, brief he is uggly ! His competitor is so much more chic and "gorgeous" as said by Erin.
(I just mad a little digression : on the single physical appearance, i mean senator Obama, is quite a handsome man (i think, do you ?))
But the pretty Segolene was won by the uggly Sarko, and even everybody is not making one's decision on the body shape, it's were the sexism comes into the scene : i mean a strong jalousy could be heard in some every day womens speeches, something also cast by media and politics saying Segolene was totally dull but without demonstration, and finally, a great part of voters just prefer Sarko because of long time sexist culture habits, and would automatically make a kind of unconscious (or terribly conscious) joint between male sexual organs and the power's attributes and tools (even if the holder is an horrible freak) ! I'm sure many voters just vote against women empowerment and many voters were women unfortunately, but it is common to see victims be persuded that the oppression system is the best !
I would add that what the more shocked whas the constant lack of support Segolene encounters in her own party : she was the head candidate of her party simply because she was very popular and raise the massive support of the basis, she experience in many political field, she prooves it, but despite many men members, unhappy tosee their place taken, did tough and silly declarations against her, they were her worst intimate ennemies ! Remember that Laurent Fabius, asked, who keep care of children at home when Segolene attends political meetings !!!! It sounds unbelievable but it is !

A huge work of education has to be done.
The fact is that something has to be deconstruct, and reinvented,but as i don't believe it will be quick to implement and to go out of an old phallocentric system, i think we should be , we women, and feminist men, twice smarter : i mean we should use the same weapon of the sexists and IN THE SAME TIME (and it's a power to be able to criss cross in perpetual movement some kind of boundaries) play another game outside those rules we did'nt made, and were didn't made for us : for instance and to futher to the Cage female monster's image, if some men do believe in castration, weshould as Medea be abble to threaten them on the "verge" of their belief, and in the same time trying to elaborate a totaly "brave new world" where those kind of fear can not exist...

We have to be pragmatical : time is not already come, so we have to be like "cameleon" a kind of rolling stone.

I made adream o a time where what ever male or female the presidential candidate would be praised for their abbility and competencies, but this implies for me to also make a kind of copernic revolution, in what whe named skills, because the definition itself can also be under sexist influencies.

[i stop here, if not clear i would precise it later in French ;-))]

Bon c'est pas tout ca, il me reste la vaisselle et le repassage à faire ! ;-)

yes & tilda swinton plays her in experimental filmmaker lynn hershman-leeson's film, conceiving ada (1997)