Hillary Clinton is on “Humans of New York” — explaining why she comes across as aloof…
Yes, sexism exists. Yes, unless you’ve experienced this kind of harassment, you don’t know what it’s actually like. For women. For people of color. For our transgender colleagues and our lesbian and gay friends and those who don’t have lots of financial resources…
Read it all… Here’s the start, from Hillary…
“I was taking a law school admissions test in a big classroom at Harvard. My friend and I were some of the only women in the room. I was feeling nervous. I was a senior in college. I wasn’t sure how well I’d do. And while we’re waiting for the exam to start, a group of men began to yell things like: ‘You don’t need to be here.’ And ‘There’s plenty else you can do.’ It turned into a real ‘pile on.’ One of them even said: ‘If you take my spot, I’ll get drafted, and I’ll go to Vietnam, and I’ll die.’ And they weren’t kidding around. It was intense. It got very personal. But I couldn’t respond. I couldn’t afford to get distracted because I didn’t want to mess up the test. So I just kept looking down ……” Read the rest of this story at Humans of New York.
