'Why I Get So Angry When You Insult Hillary Clinton'

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Pat Fuller @bannerite
This Is Why I Get So Angry When You Insult Hillary Clinton – Thirty On Tap #WhySheMatters #ImWithHer https://30ontap.com/2016/09/14/this-is-why-i-get-so-angry-when-you-insult-hillary-clinton/


by Jillian Stacia

____ The sexist rhetoric that I hear? The bullshit media coverage? It makes me downright red-faced- toddler-throwing-a-temper-tantrum kind of enraged. Because the political is personal.

When people tell me Hillary doesn’t smile enough, I’m reminded of all the times I’ve been told to “cheer up” when I’m not grinning like a buffoon. I’m reminded of when my first internship told me to control my facial expressions, because apparently PR girls can’t do much beside smile and nod. I’m reminded of the “resting bitch face” phenomenon and how annoying it is that the default for women is happy and chipper, even when life is not especially happy or chipper in that particular moment.

When people make fun of Hillary’s clothes, I’m reminded of all the times I’ve been embarrassed of my own outfits. I think about shopping for my first big girl job and searching desperately for clothes that made me look professional, yet stylish. My attire needed to be young, but mature. It needed to be flattering, but not revealing. Of course it shouldn’t be too bold or bright, but boring and beige wasn’t acceptable either. And certainly, for the love of God, not a pantsuit.

When people make fun of Hillary’s voice, I’m reminded of my male friends poking fun at me and asking why I always yell when I get “fired up” about certain issues and topics. “This isn’t yelling,” I’d retort. “This is the tone women take when they have shit to say. You don’t recognize it because we’re constantly underselling our opinions, but this is what an authoritative, passionate woman sounds like.”

When people worry about Hillary’s health and criticize her for campaigning with pneumonia, I think about how I’ve gone to work sick as a dog, afraid to be seen as weak or fragile or not able to cut it. I think about my stupid office air conditioning that always gives me a summer cold. I think about my mother taking care of two toddlers when she herself is sick with the flu. I think about woman after woman, decade after decade, tirelessly doing what needed to be done regardless of their physical, mental, and spiritual health. I think about how strong that is. How that’s truly what it means to be a woman – getting up and doing the work regardless. And then I think about how Hillary was criticized for that very fact. How, through the right lens, even raw strength can be twisted into a woman’s failure...


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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Agree 100%. I was a strong Bernie supporter, but watching how Hillary

has been treated has made me more eager to vote for her

[madokie]

7. Same here

I'm ready and have been for a long ass time for the USA to elect a woman President. We sorely need a woman's perspective on this world stage we live in now

Hillary will do us Proud, I guarantee that

[Cal33]

9. Bernie is doing what he can to get people to switch over and vote for Hillary. He did not insult

Hillary. Some of his followers did.

[sheshe2]

2. Yes.

The political is personal. When you demand Hillary to act a certain way, to look a certain way, to smile a certain way, you’re telling your daughters, your wives, your sisters, your friends that that’s what they need to do, too. It’s all connected. The rules don’t change because she’s a politician. How she is being treated is a direct parallel to the way we’re all being treated on a personal level.

The political is personal. The personal is political.

K&R!

Thanks bigtree!

[madokie]

8. Spot on

[LakeArenal]

3. How Hillary can never cry

But Boehner can cry like a baby.

How she is criticized for playing the "woman" card like there is something wrong with that.

That if she has emotions, there's something wrong with that.

When she's tough, she's the ice queen.

How no one can trust Hillary. But everyone who ever worked with her, loves her, trusts her saying she's the hardest worker they ever saw.

How she has stood decades of mud slung at her every which way and comes out stronger.

How she's been scrutinized over and over and proven clean, but still battles the same old crap.

How they make false equivalencies about her statements against Trump's deplorable ones.

How she's winning this campaign with a fraction of the air time given the slug.

[meow2u3]

12. In other words, she's damned if she does and damned if she doesn't

HRC is not being judged by her ability to do the job. She's being unfairly judged by her gender, just as PBO has been judged by the color of his skin.

Her harshest critics are sexist bigots and they know it. They just can't stand being called out on it and it's high time we make sexism as socially unacceptable as we have done racism and other forms of bigotry.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. A man cries and he is showing his sensitive side

A woman cries and she is weak. Such horseshit. Welcome to DU

[bigtree]

5. »

[annabanana]

6. Boy Howdy

Ain't THAT the truth!

And every woman knows it.

[treestar]

10. Double standards

Sexists both male and female telling us how to look and how to feel and what to express. It hangs on. It's going away, but it hangs on.

[VulgarPoet]

11. I will never trust anyone who claims "sniper fire" on a clear day.

I have to deal with that shit enough from phony veterans as it is. But Trump is the personification of Armageddon.