The magazine Cosmopolitan recently shared this story on Snapchat:

7 Things Women In Politics Could Never Get Away With (But Men Can)

1. Complaining about "sacrifice."
2. Going home "for a change of clothes."
3. Ask to balance his political commitments with time home with his kids.
4. Campaign in an ice cream shop and not get asked about calories.
5. Being called "authentic" for not caring about clothing.
6. Go gray.
7. Act mad when people talk about their shoes.

WARNING: I am a feminist (ooooh, scary word).

However, I do not agree with any of these claims made by Cosmopolitan because it's not that women can't get away with those things—in fact it's bad journalism.

Reporters these days focus on trivial aspects of a woman's career—instead of focusing on big issue topics and overall goals the female candidates have, they choose to stick to arbitrary and gender-specific questions.

Women have, in my opinion, come a long way in terms of living in a patriarchal society. We have the right to vote. We can hold prominent positions in companies. We can have our own business. We can work AND still have a family.

There is no longer this idea that women must stay at home (yes, I'm aware that many people do feel that a woman's place is in the kitchen aka: John Kasich), but for the majority of the country, women are simply free to be and do what they please.

1. Complaining about "sacrifice."
Every and any candidate that decides to run for the highest office in the land knows that they will have to give up sleep, time with family, a vacation that had been planned, and a multitude of day to day things that they had once taken for granted. It's inevitable. This is not something women cannot get away with, it's something the media chooses to ignore when reporting out on issues regarding the candidates. Every candidate, male and female, sacrifices quite a bit in order to run a campaign. America has the longest campaign cycle out of any country, so it is a given that sacrifices, for both genders, will have to be made.

2. Go home "for a change of clothes."
See, their argument here is that when Ben Carson was doing poorly, instead of revving up his campaign, going door to door, he chose to go home for a change of clothes. There is nothing wrong with that. If I was campaigning I would also like to have a fresh pair of underwear on my body at all times or else I would feel disgusting and not want to do anything. If Hillary wanted to go home for a change of clothes, of course the media would jump at the opportunity to say that she's not taking her campaign seriously, but that is just because the reporters thrive on this division between the sexes. The gender-specific questions are not a new thing to our world, nor to females in any roles of power.

3. Ask to balance his political commitments with time home with his kids.
Alright, any female or male candidate, with a family (which is all of them) recognize how important family is and want to be present for their kid's recitals, games, or straight up family dinners. There is nothing wrong with that on either side, but I think there is a larger problem with this statement. People in politics are not the only ones who have to balance their commitments with time at home. My mother has sacrificed so much of her time to be at work and do her job that she has had to miss out on swim meets, dance recitals, my brother's baseball games, taking us to practice, seeing us in the morning, or even seeing us before we go to bed. Does it suck? Yes, but she does it because her job requires her to be on top of her game 24/7. People in politics have regulated breaks and what not, my mother works for corporate America, there is no "Easter Recess" or "Christmas Recess", she is on the clock 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, unless she has planned a vacation and is using her vacation time that she's earned. Otherwise the woman never stops working. I can go days without seeing my mother, so for Cosmopolitan to say that men don't also experience this, well that's ludacris. They may not be getting badgered over it by the media, but they should because both parents are equally important in the raising of a child.

4. Campaign in an ice cream shop and not get asked about calories.
WHO ASKS PEOPLE ABOUT CALORIES? WHY ARE CALORIES EVEN RELEVANT TO HER RUNNING FOR OFFICE? WHY IS THE MEDIA SO GENDER-SPECIFIC? WHY DOES THE MEDIA FOCUS ON TRIVIAL THINGS? WHY AREN'T WE ASKING HILLARY THE SAME QUESTIONS BERNIE IS ASKING HER DURING DEBATES? WHY AREN'T WE FOCUSED ON HER IDEAS FOR POLICY CHANGES? WHY DOES IT MATTER HOW MANY CALORIES HER ICE CREAM HAS? SHE HAS ALREADY PASSED MENOPAUSE IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY CALORIES SHE EATS. THE WOMAN IS GOING TO DIE IN LIKE THE NEW 20-25 YEARS, LET HER BE.

5. Being called "authentic" for not caring about clothing.
First off, who actually cares about clothing? Like you should care to the extent that it looks good on you and compliments you, but other than that...why is it relevant? I'm not picking a presidential candidate based off his or her attire. I'm basing my vote on what they're saying. Are they a possible sociopath, like Ted Cruz? Are they forming the building blocks of a revolution, like Senator Sanders? Do they have ties to Wall Street, like Hillary Clinton? Do they want to make America great again, like Donald Trump? Or do they continue to refer to women as co-eds, like John Kasich? NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAVE TO DO WITH CLOTHING. I want a candidate who is authentic in the way they speak, the way they address issues, and overall I want them to be a person of drive and motivation while also keeping in mind our country is at a very tumultuous time right now and it's crucial that we elect someone that will bring light to many issues: race, police brutality, lack of regulation/jail time for white collar crimes, the ridiculous amount of money we spend on the military, the fact that we, for some reason, feel the need to be the world police, ISIS, and many more issues. There are way more important things to focus on, than a candidate's attire or what they are eating.

6. Go gray.
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW, HUMANS GET OLDER EACH YEAR WHEN THEIR BIRTHDAY COMES. WITH EACH YEAR THAT PASSES THEY ADD 1 YEAR TO THEIR AGE. IN CASE YOU ALSO DIDN'T KNOW, EVERYONE AGES DIFFERENTLY. Having gray hair does not make you more or less qualified to be president. I don't know who the first reporter was to make a comment about a candidates hair, but whoever you are, you're stupid. Again, how does your hair affect ANYTHING relating to politics? It doesn't. As a matter of fact it adds no more or no less class to the decisions you are making and if anything, a lot people look good with their gray/white hair. Bernie's hair, during the White House Correspondents Dinner, was white a snow and I'm pretty sure they had a blacklight in there because his hair was glowing like no tomorrow. (If you didn't see the White House Correspondents Dinner, watch it. Obama's jokes were on point. Also shoutout to Don Lemon from CNN for being immature and completely unprofessional at the dinner).

7. Act mad when people talk about their shoes.
SHOES, LIKE HAIR AND CLOTHING AND FOOD, ARE ANOTHER OF THOSE TRIVIAL QUESTIONS/COMMENTS REPORTERS FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON. WHY? I DON'T KNOW. Look, if shoes were THAT important in day to day life, people would not be friends with me because I wear my BRIGHT GREEN crocs so often that it should be a crime. I would have no friends if it really mattered whether people liked my shoes or not. I don't even have the energy to get into why this is also a stupid and trivial comment to make.

Women, in all forms of our society, are scrutinized for a diverse number of things, yet it's funny because none of the things they are being scrutinized for, make them less qualified to do their jobs.

As a future journalist, I hope that the other future journalists out there realize that our media is stupid. Their coverage of events, their questions, and their discussions, hold no water when it comes to the candidates actual qualifications and seriousness as a candidate.

I may not like Hillary Clinton, but I sure as heck know that these questions don't do anything but create confusion over her candidacy. These articles about her hair, shoes, clothes, sacrifice, make it that much harder to find her values, her ideas, her desires for our country.

Please do not get your news from Snapchat Discovery, unless its the actual news outlets like The Wall Street Journal, or Vice. CNN, People, Cosmopolitan, and even BuzzFeed, are not accurate sources of news worthy items. If you are serious about this election, also check out The Blaze, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and so on. Be diverse in your information gathering, you cannot be an informed voter if you are not informed on all sides of an issue.

To Cosmopolitan: I understand feminism is important, but make sure when you're covering feminism you're covering it on an important level. Shoes, hair, and clothing is not important during an election or even just women in politics. Women in politics, when it comes to asking feminist related questions, need to be challenged on their views, they need to be asked what they think of ISIS, they need to be asked why they believe what they believe.

Make them a force to be reckoned with.
Make them a powerhouse.

Don't trivialize them.

As a woman, and a minority, who one day hopes to be covering the campaign trails of presidents and senators to come, I will never ask a woman why she chose the shoes she's wearing.

Instead, I will ask her what her goals are to change the country for the better, or why she feels the country needs to do some backtracking in order to move forward.

ASK THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE PERTINENT TO THE CONVERSATION;
NOT THE QUESTIONS THAT TRIVIALIZE THEIR CANDIDACY.