In 1969, Hillary Clinton landed in Life magazine for her Wellesley College commencement speech.

As a writer fascinated by the influence of those young women dubbed "tied-dyed debutantes", my generation of women were the first to be raised by mothers who laundered their own white gloves at home.

Looking back, I see the flame of influence was fanned by young women of affluence. The go-your-own-way Wellesley crowd--bubbled in their compact world of academia--sensed a growing dissatisfaction with all things traditional among themselves. By targeting and calling out their same age peers, those women digging the trenches of everyday life--the glovers enlisted their female contemporaries to raise their girls toward feminista independence--stand on our own two feet, don't depend on a man, go your own way--the ultimate projection of dogma (without ever living the experience) was put into play by a bunch of 20-something rich girls.

The Rebels with the White Gloves were pushing their own agenda--pouring a new foundation for a voting block by ripping out a structure that these college women had lived only as daughters--not wives, not mothers, not working women.

The tables turned when Hillary Clinton found herself with a husband severely ordinary in the ways of manipulating the very women she and the white gloved ones had groomed by affluence influence. Her choice to remain married proved a major disconnect for me, not because of her decision to stay but because of result of that decision.

Feminism suddenly became all about a woman's choices. Stand on our own two feet, don't depend on a man, go your own way evolved forth to personal decision making the very day Hillary and Bill--with Chelsea bridging them both--strode across the lawn, the Norman Rockwell epitome of everything she had worked against. But the white gloved ones had an agenda...put one of their own in the White House.

And that someone was Hillary.

My mother--who lived feminism, who believed in that vision--was disrespected right then and there. For that very reason--the sham pulled over the eyes of American women--is why I will not support Hillary Clinton for President.

Opinions voiced at a young age often come back to haunt...and Hillary Rodham's words voiced in 1969 serve to remind that trust and respect is earned only through a well lived life--not through large scale manipulation that she once spoke against but in the long run, perpetrated against the American woman for her own personal gain.

"There's that mutuality of respect between people where you don't see people as percentage points. Where you don't manipulate people. Where you're not interested in social engineering for people. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences."

--Hillary Rodham, 1969