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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHRC and Trump set a record--the two most unfavorably viewed candidates ever.
I don't know how long these stats have been kept, but I have to wonder--why, in this country full
of smart and caring people, do we have these two?
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Dawgs
(14,755 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Laurian
(2,593 posts)IamMab
(1,359 posts)...because she is a woman requesting a promotion.
http://qz.com/624346/america-loves-women-like-hillary-clinton-as-long-as-theyre-not-asking-for-a-promotion/
America loves women like Hillary Clintonas long as theyre not asking for a promotion
We beg Clinton to run, and then accuse her of feeling entitled to win. Several feminist writers have analyzed the Clinton yo-yo. Melissa McEwan sees a deliberate pattern of humiliation, which involves building [Clinton] up and pressuring her to take on increasingly prominent public challenges, only to immediately turn on her and unleash breathtaking misogyny against her when she steps up to the plate.
If you find this hypothesis unlikely, theres Ann Friedmans explanation: Clinton makes people uncomfortable by succeeding too visibly. Clinton is trapped in the catch-22 of female ambition, Friedman writes: To succeed, she needs to be liked, but to be liked, she needs to temper her success.
Yet it seems odd that even when Clinton ascends to ever-greater positions of powerfrom first lady to senator, from senator to secretary of statewe start liking her again once shes landed the job. Its not her success that seems to arouse ire, but the act of campaigning itself.
panader0
(25,816 posts)IamMab
(1,359 posts)Women are still too under-represented in politics for anyone to pretend that sexism is over and everyone is treated equally. Look at how the media nitpicks every word Clinton says in every interview, while giving Trump a pass on anything he verbally vomits out of his mouth. Clinton gives an honest answer and no one believes her, while Trump openly lies and no one challenges him.
It has everything to do with her gender.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)to do with her being disliked.
It's her gender.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)How then do you deduce what matters to me?
I can say, it has nothing to do with her gender.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)I wish you wouldn't take the Primary wars out of GD-P.