Courtney Martin writes to Sen. Clinton:
I didn't vote for you in the primaries, but I want you to know how deeply appreciative I am of your campaign, your presence, and your perseverance.You have changed the landscape of politics and gender so dramatically in the last year that it is almost hard for me to remember what it was like before your campaign. I strain to remember the moment, just a few semesters ago, when one of my students said, “Miss, I gotta tell you, I just can't imagine a woman president.” It was the days of Geena Davis’ failed television show depicting just that, the days when your candidacy was still a pipe dream, the days when female and president were still estranged words in the American psyche.
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