There would be no difference between a male and female president, but it would be signifigant in pushing Ameirca farther away from being a pigish, sexist nation. Countries that have had Prime Minsters/Presidents a far shorter time than America has have already had MULTIPLE female leaders.
But hell, we only broke the WASP mold once. All and all, we do not like to change. Not to the left and not to the right.
That's what happens when you have a country full of citizens that have absolutley no real grasp on history. Our attention span is derided internationally, and it should be. We're more concerned about what "Jacko" is doing than we are about who our next Supreme Court Justice is going to be. But yeah, here we are -- completely devoid of introspection and historical knowledge, half of us wanting a version of the past that NEVER HAPPENED and the other half so concerned about nitpicking and whining about specifics without ever taking into consideration the whole picture that nothing gets done.
It's all very depressing, when you think about it. I really despise how poorly educated our country is. ESPECIALLY when it comes to slavery. If there is one thing that we have completley and utterly fucked up (and there is no other word for it, I swear) it's the disgusting mishandling of how we teach one of the singular most important aspects of a historical period that has inexorably made our nation what it is today. Period.
But look at that, a tangent! Woo!
As for a female President . . . yeah. Sexist nation. What are you going to do? Feminists don't get taken seriously because for the most part, the nation feels that the issue is over, that making 70% less than an equally-qualified male and being stunted by an unbreakable glass ceilling is O.K. "Feminist" is a dirty word now, and that's just sad -- because I don't think it's wrong to object to the fact that popular culture dictates that I am to be your perfect little whore AND a businesswoman AND raise a family and not have any complaints about it any which way.
I mean, look. If I am a size 0 and I can't even feel comfortable with my own body, there's something wrong with that. I mean, no one should be made to feel uncomftable about themselves -- but even when you do reach the "ideal," or come near it, there's no satisfaction. Why? Because it's not a goal! It's a construction whose only purpose is to make you feel badly about yourself. There is something fundamentally wrong with the way women are portrayed . . . and before we even talk about president, we need to start thinking about CEO and Senator. And I don't mean 5%, or one, ONCE. I mean proportionatley accurate numbers.
Sometimes this country really pisses me off. We're so apathetic and spoiled. It's unbelievable.