Hillary Clinton carved out yet another section in future history books yesterday when she officially secured the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States, becoming the first woman ever to do so.
In her brief, literally glass-breaking address to the convention before the evening session ended, Clinton said, “and if there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch, let me just say I may become the first woman president, but one of you is next.” It was a moment that Clinton’s been building to for decades. It also offered a reminder to when the idea of a woman becoming president seemed like something that could only happen in fiction. That is to say, it was a reminder of the 1990s.
Shortly after Bill Clinton’s speech about Hillary, Rutgers professor Nick Kapur tweeted a very bizarre, very true story from 1995: the time Walmart removed a feminist T-shirt from its stores for offending “family values.” The offensive T-shirt’s crime: implying that one day a woman would become president.
