Sexism for the win! Could prejudice bring it home for Hillary Clinton in 2016?
It’s been six years since a heckler yelled “Iron my shirt!” at a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign event shortly before the New Hampshire primary. Since MSNBC’s Chris Matthews called Clinton “Nurse Ratched” and commented on her “cackle.” And since a guest on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show lamented that a female president would be undermined by “PMS and mood swings.”
If Clinton runs again, it’s doubtful that we’ll see the same level of sexist vitriol against her. And that makes me, well, a little sad. If the misogyny flows as freely in 2016 as it did during Clinton’s first presidential run, the Republicans are doomed. They’re already in trouble with female voters, and it wouldn’t take much to erode that standing further. So bring on the Todd Akins, the “life’s a bitch, don’t vote for one” T-shirts, the knee-jerk Hillary haters. This time around, it will only make her stronger.
The world of gender politics has changed in the past six years. The sexist swipes that were normal then won’t fly in a post-“war on women” culture. Feminism has hit a tipping point. Stories such as the rape in Steubenville, Ohio, or Mike Huckabee’s comments on women’s libido and “Uncle Sugar” previously went unremarked outside of feminist circles; now, they’re up for widespread public debate.
This month, Time featured a story on Clinton’s possible 2016 run, with Clinton represented on the magazine’s cover as a giant high heel trampling a tiny man. “Can Anyone Stop Hillary?” the headline asked. The image, which played on old stereotypes reducing women to shoes and clothes, elicited some outrage but also much collective eye-rolling, because it felt like a throwback to another era. Slate’s Amanda Hess called it “sexist and hacky”; the Huffington Post and Marie Claire also denounced it. Mommy blogs got mad, too. “Why, when we’re talking about a professional, powerful woman,” Maria Guidoasked on Mommyish.com, “do we oftentimes default to an image of her trampling over men to get to the top? . . . Women read your magazine, you realize this, right?”
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Sexism just spews involuntarily out of their mouths, so yeah I think it will be a huge factor. 
and the big ugly question about conflict of interest and Money.
Why the fuck does everything boil down to racism, haters, sexism,...... When we comment about 3rd way policies. The labeling around here is getting worse.
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No policy, just more shit for us to complain at each other about.
Sorry, I've been physically, verbally, emotionally abused starting at 3, I have bad PTSD as an adult that I have to take medication for daily.
Does anyone care about that? Did I get any help? No?
Welcome to life.
All this is low hanging fruit.
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I couldn't have said it better.
None of it was about leaving women out of politics. I prefer Warren over Clinton's when it comes to politics. Since Warren is not available I'm searching for a non 3rd way option.
Sue me.
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The sniping of the "Obama vs. Warren" or "Hillary vs. Warren" crowd when by every single measure, she is a smart Democrat who strongly supports both is just bizarre. Pointless, idiotic and bizarre.
was discovering that the Left is as sexist as the Right. I remember the comments from the pundits at MSNBC, they were just as sexist as anything heard on Fox and talk radio. Matthews was the worst.
Chris Matthews: Lets' be honest, the only reason why Hillary is a senator and a presidential candidate is because Bill messed around.
David Shuster: Hillary is pimping Chelsea.
Keith Olbermann: Someone should take her into a room and only he come out.
Mathhews also called her "She Devil", Nurse Ratched and other similar charming names.
All these folks had to apologize and a couple of them got suspended.
That is why for years I refused to watch MSNBC. I've only started watching a bit of it now due to the Christie scandal.
I don't expect it to get any better if she does run in 2016.
That's why to one and all the sexists, and haters at large, they can go and f*ck themselves. We don't need them.
Look at the two covers from so called liberal media outlets like Time and the NY Times. One portrayed her as a gigantic woman who has a man holding on to dear life from the heel of her shoe (castrating much). The other one designed one of the ugliest covers ever for their Sunday magazine.
If this is the kind of reporting that she is getting already, when she hasn't even announced whether she will be running in 2016. What will her coverage be if she does choose to run?
I'm already sick of the whole thing and the campaign hasn't even started.
There was even a Facebook page where people would tell her to make them a sammich.
Organizations like the National Organization for Women and many female writers and bloggers say Clinton's campaign has brought latent gender bias out of the closet.
They point to a number of examples: Detractors can buy a Hillary Nutcracker with stainless-steel thighs online, or join the Facebook group called Hillary Clinton: Stop Running for President and Make Me a Sandwich.
When two men shouted "Iron my shirts!" at a Clinton campaign rally in New Hampshire, she shrugged it off, saying, "Ah, the remnants of sexism, alive and well."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?id=4964491
I also recall many sexual suggestions, including rape. What better way to put a woman in her place than to suggest that she should be raped? Fortunately, most sites deleted those types of comments right away.
I wonder if she really thinks that it's worth it to be subjected to all that crap again. Maybe she'll just say f*uck it and let someone else deal with the headache of running the country.
But we are talking about Hillary right now, try to focus.
I have no problem with disagreements about policy, but a lot of the comments about Hillary all over the media and blogs, were downright sexist and had nothing to do with her stance on the issues.
Read all the anti-Hillary crap right here on DU. It's a never ending plethora of nastiness, and some of it is tinged with sexism.
Therefore, I don't give a crap what they think of her or whether they even vote for her in the general. They can take their precious vote and stick it. If she runs, there'll be literally millions of us who will have her back.
By the time the primaries were in full swing, he had tingling legs for Obama.
It's as if someone compared Obama to Reagan or Ted Cruz.
Besides, Hillary didn't write this article, someone else did. It's obvious that your dislike of Hillary is so strong that you can't even be objective about her. Then why bother commenting?
We are talking about sexism, not political positions.
