Gender and the 2018 Election.

      The article "Stacey Abrams Didn't Play It Safe. Neither Do These Females Candidates." Talks a lot on the topic of Stacey Abrams and the fact that she is an African American woman running for governor in the sate of Georgia.

     This years election we have seen many more women running. “I feel this year we are seeing far more women who woke up one morning, turned on the TV and said, if he can be president I can run for the state legislature, Congress or governor,” said Debbie Walsh, the director of the center at Rutgers. “I don’t know if this will be an anomaly or this is the beginning of a shift.”. The article also included the follow video: 

   

     I related this New York Times article to the Linda Christensen "Unlearning The Myths That Binds" because it is not so common to see women running for such a powerful position. The stereotype of women is always a stay at home mom, cooking, cleaning. Another previous reading that this article made me think of was "White Privilege Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh. It is obvious that white men are seen as more superior, they have more opportunity and privilege "In proportion my racial group was being made confident, comfortable, and oblivious, other groups were likely being made unconfident, uncomfortable, and alienated. Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color." (McIntosh). What these women are doing is a big step forward for women and especially women of color.