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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou need never doubt the sexism/misogyny double standard women face when you look at the different
treatment t-rumpus received as to keeping the investigation of him and his campaign secret and the demand everyone has a right to know about Hillary's email investigation.
Trump and his campaign deserved the silence about a foreign entities cyber attack on the USA (an act of war) and the investigation of him amd his campaign because it might effect him negatively during an election.
But for two fucking years and during an election year everyone demanded it was critical the public know whether Hillary or someone on her campaign accidentally or carelessly sent a classified email over email on a private server that was not illegal to have and was not ever hacked like many govt servers.
Dear Lord what a fucking farce we lived through and allowed still to this day. All the while our media using the goods of an act of war against one woman and still to this day has not addressed their culpability in helping the russians either wittigingly or not fuck this country over. All the while they continually offer trump and his mob like cronies the benefit of the doubt while they never allowed Hillary the same and made her out to be a real danger to our country. Never questioning their use of ill gotten and many times false goods from a hostile foreign power to further an act of war upon us.
I am still angry and resentful.
And the cherry on top of all of this. Many in our own party don't recognize this as a major reason for the loss and look to blame anything else but this in your face sexist and misogynistic double standard. Ultimately furthering the attack on women and the reinforcement of this sick culture. Not sure whether they understand this dynamic they are playing into or not. It doesn't really matter because it is same harm to the women in the end than if it had just outrighly been a self proclaimed sexist act.
This is a hard truth that many ought to investigate and soul search.
bdjhawk
(420 posts)Thank you!
betsuni
(25,492 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)for Rump. And very definitely others who claim to oppose what's the right's up to but always choose to shoot into our center. Definitely some overlap, of course.
Rump's own followers have become politically insane if not clinically and operate below any standard that might reasonably be expected.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)mcar
(42,309 posts)When no male candidate has ever been told that.
When Chelsea Clinton started tweeting more, male pundits demanded she state her political intentions to their satisfaction.
athena
(4,187 posts)who spent the entire primary season attacking Hillary, and the entire general-election season trying to find ways to attack Hillary without appearing to do so, are now attacking Nancy Pelosi. Look at the names. They are the very same people.
And they have to nerve to claim they are not being sexist.
ismnotwasm
(41,977 posts)It's sickening, but not surprising
treestar
(82,383 posts)there would be no mention of the emails. It just wouldn't have been news and wouldn't have been suspicious in any way. They'd have admired him for working so hard he needed email at home.