Ms Besser:

What you offer as “truth” does not qualify as such. Your opinions and emotions, as valid and fervent as they might be, do not qualify as truth.

To justify voting for a woman candidate because she is a woman (or because “…it is time.”) is abhorrent (and damaging to the system, IMO) as voting against a woman because she is one.

I suggest that “Hillary is what she is” because of choices Hillary, and Hillary alone, made. Perhaps you would consider that men, having made choices similar and for the same reasons, also engender the same revulsion — in women as well as men.

Thank you.