This world-changing event — a woman confidently and competently doing what many men before her have done — is a bold, radical, and revolutionary act (those are positive words in our household). It’s an act that makes some entitled men jealous and angry, because they fear they’ll lose their grip on power — the power they alone have clenched for millennia.
In advance of the Nov. 8 general election, the Glen Arbor Sun reached out to interview candidates for Leelanau’s seven County Commission seats (both incumbents and challengers) and two candidates vying to replace John Soderholm as Glen Arbor Township Supervisor. At least one candidate for each County Commission seat responded to our interview request, as did both candidates for Township Supervisor — Bob Hawley and Peter Van Nort.
With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, and with the possibility of a woman winning the nation’s highest office, the Glen Arbor Sun asked several of our regular contributors to share their thoughts on feminism, women’s achievements during their lifetimes, and the prospect of Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office. Despite nearly a century of gains, sexism and misogyny continue to rear their shameful heads, particularly in this presidential election.