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As a twenty-something with a background in feminist studies, I'm fully aware that I grew up with the benefits that the feminist movement and civil rights movement reaped for me. But the feminism I believe in doesn't mesh with the notion that there's something innately "womanly" that a female candidate will bring to the Presidency. The feminism of my generation is BEYOND gender identities and gender roles. In this election, I feel more compelled to vote for my GENERATION than with my sex. Climate change, the occupation of Iraq, bad trade agreements... these are the important issues of this election- and it was Clinton & McCain's generation that got us in to a lot of these messes. It's an Obama generation that will have to get us out.

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