There is more at stake than who will become our next president.

It is apropos that the 2016 United States presidential race is about to become the climactic episode of the entire feminist movement. Not even a great fiction writer could create more perfect characters to illustrate the battle between the sexes than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Hillary, the ultimate defender of women’s and children’s rights who gets put down because she acts just like a man.

Donald, the white male supremacist who can do anything he wants to expect to get away with it. It is sad — so sad — just plain sad — to think that women still need to make the point that women are equal — that one gender is not better than the other. But after listening to all the rhetoric coming out of this campaign, it sounds like the same old song to me.

Besides becoming the most powerful politician in the world these two contenders will put the skids on something which has been brewing since Cleopatra’s day. History will be made in more ways than one on Tuesday because the impact of a win for either of these candidates will be huge for the entire world and every single person in it — male or female. If Hillary wins, doors will open for women and girls around the world for the better forever. If Donald wins, we will get another 2,000 of the same.

Susan Carlson Joyce

Albert Lea