Another home day

I've been doing some window shopping online. Went on sites such as target or ikea to look for dorm things then make a list of the things I want and need for my dorm. I've been not thinking too much about Patty leaving for college because I want to see it as a temporary vacation for her and the others and that she will come back and our friendship remain the same. Yea, that's really how I see it and what I believe: that this goodbye is not suppose to be sad, but then whenever I see her cry (like yesterday night) it triggers a little tear from my eyes, too. I've began to realize that staying at home is not that bad. haha. Since I'm about to go to college, I can see so much freedom I can get. But I shouldn't take that in too fast and I should stay home more.
So today when I was at home watching the news, the issue about McCain picking a woman as VP came up. My uncle had this whole topic about women being part of the political arena. His opinion is that for decades and centuries, women have always put their family issue as priority. They are, essentially, the caretaker. To have a woman as VP is quite risky mostly if she had children. He also said that women are highly emotional compare to their opposite sex and emotional people are weak. So to have a woman (who put feelings on top of practicality) as president or even VP, is a wrong decision. In my opinion, my uncle should have looked at the records of the political candidate first before even judging on gender base. Also, there have been many well-established political leader who are women who has family. Ok, it is true that most women are "feeling" type of people, but that doesn't make them weak and shaky. We've seen many women who are the establisher of the family, who holds the family up through times of breakdown because they are the empathizers, the supporters, and the fool-proof glue that holds family together. They are experienced in this field. And as far as I know, we need someone, who can hold the country together, who knows how to understand what the people want, who knows how to comfort people through times of war and tragedies. And it shouldn't matter whether that person will be a man or a woman.
So I guess I got a little sidetrack, but this topic is similar to the whole "race" topic like what Diem has in her blog. It's really hard sometimes not to be sexist or racist because those things of the past establishes the "what is meant to be" in our mind. But then sometimes we just need to break out of it for the greater good. Because we haven't seen the result yet of what could happen if Obama became president or Palin became VP, we shouldn't be so ready to judge on the outcome just because of their skin color or gender. So we'll all have to see, right?