From Connie Schultz: Same Misogyny, Different Season

[CBHagman]

[url]https://www.creators.com/read/connie-schultz/04/16/same-misogyny-different-season[/url]

Rebecca Traister, in her 2010 book "Big Girls Don't Cry," took on the "frat boys" at MSNBC, and the misogyny and sexism heaped on Clinton by too many young, white males on social media and in the Obama campaign. I reviewed her book for The Washington Post, and her description of their behavior has stayed with me:

"A pattern was emerging in the liberal, privileged, predominantly white climes in which I worked and lived: young men were starry-eyed about Obama and puffed with outsized antipathy toward Clinton. ... I was made uncomfortable by the persistent note of aggression that marked their reactions to Clinton, and puzzled by the increasingly cult-like devotion to Obama, a man whose policy positions were not so different, after all, from those of his opponent. Hating Hillary had for decades been the provenance of Republican blowhards, but now men on the left were spewing vitriol about her voice, her looks, her presumption — and without realizing it were radicalizing me in my support for Clinton more than the candidate herself ever could have."

Sound familiar? This year, I mean.

Only now, as I daily behold the latest round of anti-Clinton misogyny from — ta da! — mostly young white male lefties, do I realize how much that 2008 campaign season changed me. Like many of my female friends, I no longer gasp or wonder how these boys could be so mean. This time around, I mentally flick them away like gnats. Age has few glory-be benefits, but this immunity to such adolescent hate is definitely one of them. What grown man — what real man — thinks like this? We haven't the time, my friends.

[northernsouthern]

1. Misogyny kettle calling Misogyny pot sexist.

From Connie Schultz: Same Misogyny, Different Season

https://www.creators.com/read/connie-schultz/04/16/same-misogyny-different-season

Rebecca Traister, in her 2010 book "Big Girls Don't Cry," took on the "frat boys" at MSNBC, and the misogyny and sexism heaped on Clinton by too many young, white males on social media and in the Obama campaign. I reviewed her book for The Washington Post, and her description of their behavior has stayed with me:

"A pattern was emerging in the liberal, privileged, predominantly white climes in which I worked and lived: young men were starry-eyed about Obama and puffed with outsized antipathy toward Clinton. ... I was made uncomfortable by the persistent note of aggression that marked their reactions to Clinton, and puzzled by the increasingly cult-like devotion to Obama, a man whose policy positions were not so different, after all, from those of his opponent. Hating Hillary had for decades been the provenance of Republican blowhards, but now men on the left were spewing vitriol about her voice, her looks, her presumption — and without realizing it were radicalizing me in my support for Clinton more than the candidate herself ever could have."

Sound familiar? This year, I mean.

Only now, as I daily behold the latest round of anti-Clinton misogyny from — ta da! — mostly young white male lefties, do I realize how much that 2008 campaign season changed me. Like many of my female friends, I no longer gasp or wonder how these boys could be so mean. This time around, I mentally flick them away like gnats. Age has few glory-be benefits, but this immunity to such adolescent hate is definitely one of them. What grown man — what real man — thinks like this? We haven't the time, my friends.

I am quoting this so it doesn't vanish! Man I got to love it, the old Hillary play book. Full of Misogyny and even racism. I loved it when she attacked Obama on his race...but I am sure the as she said "radicalized" supports forgot that they were mostly upper-class white women that were attacking a black man as privileged. Must be a relief now that they can just play all of the cards she has collected over the ages of her being in the system.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Buh-bye forever! eom

[northernsouthern]

4. Your sexism will not be missed.

Well only when I need an example of it.

[shenmue]

3. What garbage. Get lost.

[northernsouthern]

5. Yes how deep.

Such an in depth reply. The amount of time that went in to that must have been ages! How did you design that emocon? I bet you used photoshop then exported it as a gif and then you had to contact the web-designers to ask them to include the animation for the emocon. That is amazing dedication! I am honored you put so much work in to your reply, and you didn't just click some icon because that would be pathetic.