Things like this make me absolutely, batshit crazy! There’s an underlying assumption here that if you don’t support Hillary Clinton, then you must be a bad feminist.

Let me tell everyone out there, the reason I’m not supporting Clinton has nothing to do with our misogynistic, patriarchal society. I’m absolutely thrilled that a woman has come so far in our country to be vieing for our main political office.

The reason I don’t support Hillary Clinton has nothing to do with how I see her as a woman. I don’t care what she wears, how she looks, how old she is (although I do wish I’d see a few more wrinkles on the 60 year old face), whether she’s too tough or too soft. The reason I don’t support Hillary is simply because I don’t *expletive deleted* like her!

I’ve disliked Hillary since the day over a year ago that I got a so-called “grassroots survey” from her, because she wanted to get feedback from the people of the country. It was a survey so slanted that there was no way anyone who has even slightly considered themselves a Democrat would have answered any way other than the way she wanted them to answer it. She didn’t really want to know what people thought. She wanted to be able to wave a survey around and say that the “people” supported what she supported. Oh…and of course, she wanted our monetary support.

That thing left such a bad taste in my mouth that I instinctively distrust everything she says. I assume everything is just as slanted as that mailing she sent out. At that point, I had barely even heard of Barack Obama. And honestly, even if he hadn’t run, I probably would not have supported Hillary. I probably would have been a lukewarm Edwards supporter.

Barack Obama sparked something for me that no one in my voting history has ever done. For the first time in my life, I’m not just voting against someone….I’m voting for someone.

You know, if Hillary manages to win this nomination, I’ll do what I’ve done for the vast majority of elections I’ve voted in for the last 28 years. I won’t be voting for her….I’ll just be voting against whatever candidate is running against her.

I’m tired of voting against people in elections. I want to vote for someone I trust, for someone I can truly believe in, for someone with integrity and someone who I am intuitively drawn to.

I’m not a bad feminist because I support Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. I would be a bad feminist, though, if I supported Hillary Clinton just because she’s a woman. That would be saying a woman isn’t good enough to get there on her own. When a woman runs for President who I truly believe is the best person for the job, I’ll be breaking down the doors of the voting booth to cast my ballot. Unfortunately, that just hasn’t happened for me yet.