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Showing Original Post only (View all)When Hillary Clinton Killed Feminism [View all]
NYT Op-ed
Maureen Dowd
2/13/16
When Hillary Clinton Killed Feminism
WASHINGTON THE Clinton campaign is shellshocked over the wholesale rejection of Hillary by young women, younger versions of herself who do not relate to her.
Hillarys coronation was predicated on a conviction that has just gone up in smoke. ....So this time, the Clintons assumed, the women who had deserted Hillary for Barack, in Congress and in the country, owed her. Democrats would want to knock down that second barrier.
Hillary believed that there was an implicit understanding with the sisters of the world that now was the time to come back home and vote for a woman. (The Clintons seem to have conveniently forgotten how outraged they were by identity politics when black leaders deserted them in 2008 to support Obama.)
This attitude intensified the unappetizing solipsistic subtext of her campaign, which is What is Hillary owed? It turned out that female voters seem to be looking at Hillary as a candidate rather than as a historical imperative. And shes coming up drastically short on trustworthiness.
As Olivia Sauer, an 18-year-old college freshman who caucused for Bernie Sanders in Ames, Iowa, told a Times reporter: It seems like he is at the point in his life when he is really saying what he is thinking. With Hillary, sometimes you get this feeling that all of her sentences are owned by someone.
Hillary started, both last time and this, from a place of entitlement, as though if she reads her résumé long enough people will surrender. And now shes even angrier that she has been shown up by someone she considers even less qualified than Obama was when he usurped her place.
....snip....
....What the three older women seemed to miss was that the young women supporting Sanders are living the feminist dream, where gender no longer restricts and defines your choices, where girls grow up knowing they can be anything they want. The aspirations of 70s feminism are now baked into the culture.
The interesting thing about the spectacle of older women trying to shame younger ones on behalf of Hillary is that Hillary and Bill killed the integrity of institutional feminism back in the 90s with the help of Albright and Steinem."
....snip.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/opinion/sunday/when-hillary-clinton-killed-feminism.html?_r=0
Maureen Dowd
2/13/16
When Hillary Clinton Killed Feminism
WASHINGTON THE Clinton campaign is shellshocked over the wholesale rejection of Hillary by young women, younger versions of herself who do not relate to her.
Hillarys coronation was predicated on a conviction that has just gone up in smoke. ....So this time, the Clintons assumed, the women who had deserted Hillary for Barack, in Congress and in the country, owed her. Democrats would want to knock down that second barrier.
Hillary believed that there was an implicit understanding with the sisters of the world that now was the time to come back home and vote for a woman. (The Clintons seem to have conveniently forgotten how outraged they were by identity politics when black leaders deserted them in 2008 to support Obama.)
This attitude intensified the unappetizing solipsistic subtext of her campaign, which is What is Hillary owed? It turned out that female voters seem to be looking at Hillary as a candidate rather than as a historical imperative. And shes coming up drastically short on trustworthiness.
As Olivia Sauer, an 18-year-old college freshman who caucused for Bernie Sanders in Ames, Iowa, told a Times reporter: It seems like he is at the point in his life when he is really saying what he is thinking. With Hillary, sometimes you get this feeling that all of her sentences are owned by someone.
Hillary started, both last time and this, from a place of entitlement, as though if she reads her résumé long enough people will surrender. And now shes even angrier that she has been shown up by someone she considers even less qualified than Obama was when he usurped her place.
....snip....
....What the three older women seemed to miss was that the young women supporting Sanders are living the feminist dream, where gender no longer restricts and defines your choices, where girls grow up knowing they can be anything they want. The aspirations of 70s feminism are now baked into the culture.
The interesting thing about the spectacle of older women trying to shame younger ones on behalf of Hillary is that Hillary and Bill killed the integrity of institutional feminism back in the 90s with the help of Albright and Steinem."
....snip.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/opinion/sunday/when-hillary-clinton-killed-feminism.html?_r=0
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Is this why people are so upset with her? Her scuffle with Obama, while he prefers DAVID BROOKS?
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#30
I like this comment about David Brook's rant, which, who-the-hell-can-understand...
MrMickeysMom
Feb 2016
#45
That's a good one. It IS so uplifting to see finally the media's attempts to 'pigeon hole' people,
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#28
Important info. Its just too bad a Hillary "feminist" put down women, saying they only liked Bernie
RiverLover
Feb 2016
#33
The same restrictions that fall on one demographic group affects all the others.
procon
Feb 2016
#38