17 Responses to “Vote for Jill Favorite Female Blogger”

1. 1 tim russo on April 7th, 2008 10:24 am

   hey jill, as a female blogger, thoughts on Connie Schultz’s latest estrogenic bloviation?

   http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/07/fat-lady-tuning-up-in-dem-primary/

2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on April 7th, 2008 10:44 am

   My thoughts are to post it at BlogHer where more than seven million members can view it if they’d like and comment on it.

   But if you want to know whether I agree with Connie or not?

   Obama is doing the right thing by saying, if she wants to run, let her run.

   Everyone else - men and women - is just giving their opinion about why they think Clinton should or should not withdraw.

   I’m a blogger. People can say whatever they want - I wouldn’t say that they have a right to or not.

   However, to the extent that anyone, man or woman, is using a sexist-based withdraw for saying Clinton should resign, that says more about the weakness of their suggestion than anything else. There are plenty of other reasons to make the suggestion.

3. 3 tim russo on April 7th, 2008 10:49 am

   what about connie’s sexist based argument in the opposite direction?

4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on April 7th, 2008 2:20 pm

   I have never advocated that people - male or female - vote for Hillary because she is a woman. I know men and women of first, second and third-wave generations who ARE voting for Hillary first and foremost because she is a woman. I also know men and women who are voting for Obama first and foremost because he is black.

   I’d hope people wouldn’t do that. I did not vote for Hillary because she is a woman. Though I have voted for candidates - mostly judicial - because they are women when everything else seems to be equal.

   But I understand why people feel that way - re: voting for Hillary because she is a woman or voting for Obama because he is part black.

   Helen Thomas says it’s okay to vote for Hillary just because she’s a woman. So what can I say?

5. 5 tim russo on April 7th, 2008 2:35 pm

   jill, that wasn’t the question. connie’s headline was “men, it’s not your place to tell clinton to step aside.”

   do you agree that “men” don’t have any place telling hillary to step aside?

6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on April 7th, 2008 2:44 pm

   Men have no more or less right than women, Tim. You know me well enough to know that that’s what I believe.

   It is true that it’s especially galling in some circumstances to have someone who will never know what it’s like to be someone else tell that someone else how and what they should do. Like a person who has no intention of ever being in the military telling the military what they should do.

   But do they have a place to tell it anyway?

   Isn’t that why there are so many blogs?

7. 7 Ben Keeler on April 7th, 2008 3:05 pm

   i voted for you as uniformed voter without looking at other profiles

8. 8 Sarah on April 7th, 2008 4:57 pm

   I’m a woman, and I’ll say it: Hillary, step aside!

9. 9 Carole Cohen on April 7th, 2008 10:29 pm

   Me too Sarah; I was also wondering why some didn’t have photos LOL. Wouldn’t have mattered though JZ is the man, as they say LOL

10. 10 Jason Rowsey on April 7th, 2008 11:39 pm

    Well I am a man and I say: Don’t give up Hillary!

    What would we think of that? A man saying she should stay in it.

11. 11 muley on April 8th, 2008 1:12 am

    …..man, woman, black, white…….quit when you feel like quitting. Jill, you have my vote.

12. 12 Carole Cohen on April 8th, 2008 8:58 am

    I just realized I sounded like I was supporting what Sarah said when I apparently can’t read! I meant, I voted for Jill without reading the other bios. I think Hillary should decide if and when she wants to get out of the race - sorry.

13. 13 Mike C on April 8th, 2008 12:55 pm

    I didn’t even have to check the other candidates before voting for you!

14. 14 Kimberly Kootosuradis on April 8th, 2008 7:07 pm

    Voted. For you!!

15. 15 JAMES RUGGIERO on April 9th, 2008 10:21 pm

    I voted for ya…good luck!

16. 16 john spalding on April 9th, 2008 11:31 pm

    I voted the JMZ ticket.

    Go O! Stop the Clinton Machine, It would be change from what we have now, but at the end of the term, just more of the same.

17. 17 Jill Miller Zimon on April 11th, 2008 10:50 pm

    Thanks all for the vote of confidence - only an hour left. I expect Digby or Melissa McEwan to win but being in this thing has made me really examine what and how others write compared to what I write and how I write and what I want to do.

    It’s going to be a few weeks or maybe even a few months, but I hope that by the end of the summer, I’ll be involved in something much bigger in the Ohio blogosphere that I hope will educate and motivate and lead to more action.

    We’ll see!

    Thanks again.

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