Check out this piece on how Hillary Clinton has apparently been focusing on her "feminine" side to appeal to women voters this past week as she finishes up her week of "Women Changing America" events. (Although I have to chime in that I saw her speak this week at the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee luncheon this week where the awesome Emily's List's president and founder Ellen Malcolm was honored, and she seemed to focus more on Bush's shitty administration than anything.)
Anyway, I also had to give a shout out to our girl Jaclyn Friedman for getting a quote in there. Big ups!
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How many different versions of the 'Hillary is a woman!' story do we have to be subjected to? I don't even appreciate the less objectionable ones because they all have 'women as other' as an underlying assumption. Yes, she is a woman. Some of her references will reflect her experience as a woman. It doesn't make her a space alien, for God's sake.
Why is it threatening to hear a national leader speak about the experience of over half of the population of the nation from an insider's perspective?
from the article: "Yet Clinton is increasingly portraying herself more as motherly and traditional than as trailblazing and feminist"
Yes, because it's not possible for someone to be both motherly and traditional and a trailblazing feminist. How dare she have a personality other than the one the media and public have constructed for her?
Why is it threatening to hear a national leader speak about the experience of over half of the population of the nation from an insider's perspective?
Because this one has a vagina! What do I win?
I agree, a woman can be a feminist and a mother, so that part of the article is irritating. And it's exhausting to have the "woman" singled out...
But I do think the article in general isn't codemning her for being a woman or feminine, but for playing up to gender stereotypes, which I think most of us are against.
"My impression is that most of the young feminists are like, 'Um, no,' " Friedman said.
this sums it up for me. just because she's a woman doesnt mean she stands for me or my politics.
Damned if she does, damned if she does not.. why dont thy just let her be a PERSON>