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Guardian: Hillary Clinton's book is exactly as 'safe' as female politicians are forced to be
Hillary Clinton's new book, Hard Choices – a memoir of her time as secretary of state – is finally out, and the critical consensus is that it's a snore. CNN's conservative commentator Ana Navarro called it "50 shades of boring" while the network's liberal contributor Sally Kohn called it "safe" and "dry" – and joked that the book should have been called "Boring Choices". The New Republic criticized its "dullness and lack of critical energy". Politico's Mike Allen called the 596-page book a "newsless snore".
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When then-presidential hopeful Clinton teared up on the campaign trail in New Hampshire in 2008, for example, Maureen Dowd penned a column in the New York Times that asked "Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?" On CNN, Glenn Beck said, "After spending decades stripping away all trace of emotion, femininity, and humanity, Hillary Clinton broke down and actually cried. ... I don't buy the hype." On Fox News, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol called the emotional moment "solipsistic and narcissistic". Similarly, when Clinton got into a heated exchange during her Benghazi testimony, the New York Post ran a cover of Clinton yelling with her fists clenched; the headline: NO WONDER BILL'S AFRAID.
Any emotion that Hillary Clinton shows has always been used against her, and it has become a kind of stand-in for the many reasons women are said to be oh-so-unfit to lead. The building-up of her protective public armor, post- and potentially pre-White House, isn't just smart for Clinton personally - it's essential for the growing national image of women in politics.
It's clear from reading Hard Choices that sexism - particularly during Clinton's 2008 run for president - has taken a toll on her. "I knew that it arose from cultural and psychological attitudes about women's roles in society, but that didn't make it any easier for me and my supporters," she writes. Indeed, the frenzy of misogyny was so intense that it's hard to imagine enduring it all while vying for the most important job in the world.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/11/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices-boring
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When then-presidential hopeful Clinton teared up on the campaign trail in New Hampshire in 2008, for example, Maureen Dowd penned a column in the New York Times that asked "Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?" On CNN, Glenn Beck said, "After spending decades stripping away all trace of emotion, femininity, and humanity, Hillary Clinton broke down and actually cried. ... I don't buy the hype." On Fox News, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol called the emotional moment "solipsistic and narcissistic". Similarly, when Clinton got into a heated exchange during her Benghazi testimony, the New York Post ran a cover of Clinton yelling with her fists clenched; the headline: NO WONDER BILL'S AFRAID.
Any emotion that Hillary Clinton shows has always been used against her, and it has become a kind of stand-in for the many reasons women are said to be oh-so-unfit to lead. The building-up of her protective public armor, post- and potentially pre-White House, isn't just smart for Clinton personally - it's essential for the growing national image of women in politics.
It's clear from reading Hard Choices that sexism - particularly during Clinton's 2008 run for president - has taken a toll on her. "I knew that it arose from cultural and psychological attitudes about women's roles in society, but that didn't make it any easier for me and my supporters," she writes. Indeed, the frenzy of misogyny was so intense that it's hard to imagine enduring it all while vying for the most important job in the world.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/11/hillary-clinton-book-hard-choices-boring
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Nope. Why don't you start another of your ever so entertaining posts.
Are you kidding me?
What the fuck.
I guess we're post-sexism.
It's going to be fucking delicious to see the hateful MRAs come out against Clinton when she announces. And the "liberals" joining their side.
