“Although the right to vote was a condition had existed for 16 years on the day my mother was born,” blogs Mitch Mulhall in comment #1, in response to reckless G, ” I nevertheless join you in your end-zone dance over this achievement. That said, to me, one of the most troubling aspects of your activism is that you carry a torch for a people who do not extend to women anything like this status–this inalienable right (equality, not voting)–you care enough to write about. Your position on a Palestinian State would make so much more sense to me if you could draw a concrete connection between a Palestinian State and the liberation of women in Middle Eastern culture… but you never go there.”