More than 20 years ago, Dr. Ann Moliver Ruben advised a T-shirt that apprehend “Someday a woman will be president!” It was pulled from a Walmart abundance in 1995 because it was accounted abhorrent ― a account story that resurfaced again this anniversary aback Democrat Hillary Clinton became the aboriginal woman nominated as the presidential applicant for a above party.
Ruben is 91 years old now. And she’s fabricated added shirts, but with a baby tweak. The new shirts still say “Someday a woman will be president” on the front, but now they say “Someday is now” on the back.
“I never anticipation it would happen,” she told The Huffington Post. “But it has happened, and God has been acceptable abundant to accumulate me animate so that I could see it for absolute happening.”
Ruben is “very abundant a Hillary supporter” and said she will do aggregate she can to advice Clinton get elected. She said her admiration to see a woman admiral dates aback to aback she was 8 years old, aback a macho accessory fabricated her comedy a bold alleged “business” in which he was the aggregation admiral and she was his secretary. After arena that way for two days, she said she capital to switch.
“He said ‘Are you crazy, Annie? Boys are never secretaries and a babe could never be admiral of anything,’” and again punched her in the stomach, she said.
Her aunt comforted her and said that sometimes boys could be mean.
“But my aunt didn’t acquaint me what I bare to hear. And I bare to apprehend ‘Of advance a babe can be president,’” Ruben said. “So that was the beginning.”
Ruben said her ancestor consistently told her she was acute and accurate her. She never capital to absolutely be the president, but she did appetite to get an education. She accustomed her Ph.D. in attitude and became a assistant afore spending a 35-year career as a alliance and ancestors therapist in Florida.
She wrote a book, The Memoirs of a Blessed Psychologist, that she said was well-received. “Many bodies who apprehend my book accept told me that I’m a genius,” she said. “And a brace men accept told me that as a aftereffect of account my book, they accept collapsed in adulation with me.”
She and her husband, who is now deceased, had three children, all boys, and four grandsons. Ruben said she aloft her sons to account women, because they watched her get an apprenticeship and work.
“Their accomplished activity they saw their mother as a feminist who believed that women could accomplish because that’s what my ancestor told me: ‘You’re smart, Annie,’” she said.
She additionally advised the T-shirt, which she awash in a Walmart in Florida in 1995 afore the abundance accustomed complaints. A Walmart backer told the Associated Press at the time that “it was bent the T-shirt was abhorrent to some bodies and so the accommodation was fabricated to cull it from the sales floor.”
The Walmart of today doesn’t angle by that comment. “Wow, it still pains us that we fabricated this aberration 20 years ago,” backer Danit Marquardt said in a account on Wednesday. “We’re appreciative of the actuality that our country – and our aggregation – has fabricated so abundant advance in advancing women in the workplace, and in society.”
Ruben said she beatific a baby adaptation of the “Someday a woman will be president” shirt to Clinton aback the above secretary of state’s aboriginal granddaughter was built-in in 2014.
She apprehend the agenda she accustomed back: “Dear Dr. Ruben, Thank you for your affectionate agenda and for the ambrosial T-shirt. I abide beholden for your absorption and acceptable acclamation at this blessed time for my ancestors and acknowledge your support. Onward!”
Ruben is not accessory the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week, but does plan to abutment Clinton in being abutting January.
“When she’s affidavit in in Washington, D.C., I’m putting my T-shirt on and I’ll be there,” she said.
This adventure has been adapted with a animadversion from Walmart.
91-Year-Old Who Advised 'Offensive' Shirt Saying A Woman Would Be Admiral Is Ready To See It Happen
