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Eugene

(61,900 posts)
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 08:35 PM Feb 2016

‘Huge Double Standard’ For Women Running for President, Clinton Says

Source: ABC News

‘Huge Double Standard’ For Women Running for President, Clinton Says

By LIZ KREUTZ
Henniker, NH — Feb 6, 2016, 7:09 PM ET

Hillary Clinton on Saturday blasted the “huge double standard” she feels she faces as a woman running for president.

“There is a much greater burden on women running for political office...there is still a huge double standard,” Clinton told a voter in a town hall at the New England College who asked about the perception that she is “drilled” and “rehearsed.”

The Democratic presidential candidate mentioned a blog post a friend sent to her about a Bernie Sanders supporter who likes the Vermont Senator because he yells a lot and has messy hair.

"My friend said, ‘Boy that would really work for any woman running,’” Clinton retorted sarcastically.

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‘Huge Double Standard’ For Women Running for President, Clinton Says (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2016 OP
I will not support Hillary because of her support for war, fracking, increased H-1B visas, the TPP, djean111 Feb 2016 #1
She's been playing the gender card all along. Blue_In_AK Feb 2016 #2
Oh, I know. As a woman, I am now kinda disgusted at the snapping down of that gender card, djean111 Feb 2016 #3
read this... 840high Feb 2016 #7
playing the entire gender deck this week virtualobserver Feb 2016 #5
Trying as usual to have it both ways....sexism on the one hand and women better vote for me Punkingal Feb 2016 #4
She evidently has a full deck of nothing but gender cards. Indepatriot Feb 2016 #6
Bob's Burgers (NSFW) MisterP Feb 2016 #12
Seeming "drilled" and "rehearsed" has nothing to do with gender. winter is coming Feb 2016 #8
She's as phony as a three dollar bill hifiguy Feb 2016 #9
Her hair isn't messy... Ino Feb 2016 #10
Whatever that truth may be on any given day. frylock Feb 2016 #19
Where's my...oh yeah elias49 Feb 2016 #11
Bless it. pitiful. Hiraeth Feb 2016 #13
Playing the women card, eh? Nedsdag Feb 2016 #14
Vote for me ... Because my life is just sooooooo hard. Nanjeanne Feb 2016 #15
Check this out: kath Feb 2016 #16
The Gender Card she keeps playing is cheap & getting on my nerves DemocraticSocialist8 Feb 2016 #17
Actually, I think she's right in this. fwiff Feb 2016 #18
The messy hair doesn't usually work for male politicians either Matariki Feb 2016 #20
I agree with HRC. Kang Colby Feb 2016 #21
Whining about double standards the same time her surrogates are insulting CharlotteVale Feb 2016 #22
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. I will not support Hillary because of her support for war, fracking, increased H-1B visas, the TPP,
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 08:40 PM
Feb 2016

and cluster bombs. IMO she is trying to trivialize these important issues, and play that gender card. Ugh.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
2. She's been playing the gender card all along.
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 08:45 PM
Feb 2016

I always make note in the debates every time she mentions that she's a woman, as if we all don't know that already.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
3. Oh, I know. As a woman, I am now kinda disgusted at the snapping down of that gender card,
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 08:48 PM
Feb 2016

by Hillary, Gloria Steinem, and Madeleine Albright.

 

840high

(17,196 posts)
7. read this...
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 09:04 PM
Feb 2016

Feminist activist Gloria Steinem on Friday suggested that young women support Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders over rival Hillary Clinton because they want to meet boys.

On HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher asked Steinem why Clinton, who has campaigned on the historic nature of her candidacy, was losing the young female vote.

don’t mean to over-generalize … but men tend to get more conservative because they gain power as they age, and women get more radical because they lose power as they age,” Steinem responded.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/dem-primaries/268498-gloria-steinem-young-women-support-sanders-to-attract-men#

 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
5. playing the entire gender deck this week
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 08:50 PM
Feb 2016

I think that this could backfire....this feels too extreme....undermines her as a candidate

Punkingal

(9,522 posts)
4. Trying as usual to have it both ways....sexism on the one hand and women better vote for me
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 08:48 PM
Feb 2016

on the other hand. Screw that crap.

 

Indepatriot

(1,253 posts)
6. She evidently has a full deck of nothing but gender cards.
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 09:02 PM
Feb 2016

Big Mistake. The women I know resent the hell out of this crap.

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)
8. Seeming "drilled" and "rehearsed" has nothing to do with gender.
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 09:17 PM
Feb 2016

And everything to do with being a phony. If she could project an ounce of authenticity, she'd be "well-prepared".

Ino

(3,366 posts)
10. Her hair isn't messy...
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 09:26 PM
Feb 2016

but she sure does yell. A Lot. And drips with sarcasm, smugness, and condescension.

Hillary says (from the OP): “I am who I am,” she said. "I can't do some kind of personality transformation...I have to be true to myself."

Nedsdag

(2,437 posts)
14. Playing the women card, eh?
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:07 AM
Feb 2016

If Obama played the race card, he wouldn't be in the White House.

Now THAT'S a double standard.

17. The Gender Card she keeps playing is cheap & getting on my nerves
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:21 AM
Feb 2016

When Obama was running in 2008, he didn't repeatedly say "vote for me so I can be the first Black President." It's become clear to me that being the 1st Woman President is the most important thing to her.

fwiff

(233 posts)
18. Actually, I think she's right in this.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:25 AM
Feb 2016

I wouldn't call it 'huge' but there is a certain way that she, as a woman, is expected to behave. And she would bring another shitload of irrelevant controversy anytime she slipped up enough. (She is drilled and rehearsed, but it's because she doesn't have the natural communication skills of Bill or Obama, even Bernie, and if she wasn't a weathervane, I wouldn't have a problem with that)

Look at that stupid piece/comment? a couple of days ago, calling her 'shrill'.

We have plenty to criticize her about on policy.




Matariki

(18,775 posts)
20. The messy hair doesn't usually work for male politicians either
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:31 AM
Feb 2016

But I agree she definitely is correct about this.

 

Kang Colby

(1,941 posts)
21. I agree with HRC.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:33 AM
Feb 2016

In what universe (sadly) could a woman walk around with messed up hair, looking unkempt like Sanders spouting nonsense pie in the sky public policy proposals? Bernie can present his disheveled appearance and nonsense as just being a geriatric man and people eat it up.

CharlotteVale

(2,717 posts)
22. Whining about double standards the same time her surrogates are insulting
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:37 AM
Feb 2016

Bernie's female supporters - it doesn't get much more hypocritical than that!

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