ABUSE....something I know about.....

[jodymarie aimee]

Coverage of Hillary Clinton during this campaign has been stomach churning. Ridiculous standards few human beings could meet are set and then when Clinton delivers, the goal posts are moved so that she still fails. Each day, talking heads and keyboard hacks who could never measure up to the standards they set, lay in wait to judge every little thing about Clinton as if she is prey. It isn’t her proposed policies they judge. It isn’t her actual record. It is her value as a human being that gets ripped to shreds on a daily basis.

She can’t speak right. Her hand gestures are suspicious. She doesn’t smile enough or she smiles the wrong way. She can’t take bathroom breaks right. She can’t dress right. She isn’t authentic enough. When she authentically jokes around, she has a debilitating disease. She isn’t accessible enough to the media. When she is accessible, she must be desperate. She made a mistake, she should own up to it. She owns up to mistakes and she is a failure.

Her guilt is decided in advance and all eyes watch until the tiniest misstep — real or perceived — validates them.

Unlike any male candidate, ever, she is forced to bare her soul again and again and again. Her life is an open book but that still isn’t enough. She is holding back from us. She must be. If the media can’t find something, it will just cherry pick information and make it up. Issues don’t matter. Policies don’t matter. Substance doesn’t matter. It is all about the “optics” of a moment in time.

It is relentless.

It is exhausting.

It is abusive.

I have never appreciated Hillary Clinton more than I do today. Her strength in the face of what has been thrown at her during this campaign is the stuff legends are made of. She is an inspiration. I am thrilled to have her representing me in this race. #IAmSoWithHer

[monmouth4]

1. I don't recall Angela Merkel or any of the other female leaders of their country being abused like

this. Of course they may have been and we didn't hear about it, or at least I didn't. The media truly are making asses out of themselves, especially the female members of the media. They should be ashamed.

[onecaliberal]

2. Sadly, I agree. It's pathetic

[athena]

3. That's a brilliant observation.

It must feel like living with a narcissistic parent, or being mobbed at work. I don't know how she manages to continue in spite of it all.

[Rose Siding]

4. Your post has gotten lots of recs here-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028160854

Lots of us liked your post from Daily Kos. You nailed it. Thank you

[colin62]

5. Well said. /nt

[Maru Kitteh]

6. I wish I could rec your post a few dozen times.

It seems the media has no bottom.

The amazing COURAGE of this woman to go through all of this - just to hold the worst job in the world? So that she can try to help us all, and make a difference for the better?

Simply amazing.

[hibbing]

7. It's digusting

After 8 years of a dumbass who for the first time made me embarrassed to be an American. He couldn't speak properly, couldn't open a door, lied us into a war of choice, had a photo op farm he went to, contributed to the collapse of the economy, did nothing to prepare for Katrina, and the list goes on and on but he got a complete pass by the corporate media.


Peace

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. Girl, you nailed it!

I know I'm saying this over and over ad nauseum, but.....

We're gonna really SEE sexism and what it means, how it manifests, how pervasive it really is.

This IS a big deal! I'll be interested to see feminist (and civilian! ) writings about this over the next 10 years!

[young_at_heart]

9. The media is beyond deplorable!

At the age of 76, I have seen several presidential campaigns and NEVER have I seen anything like this. I am so angry at the nastiness that never seems to end. It's too much!!

[bettyellen]

12. Obligatory minimizing the misogyny post. There's at least one in every thread

[brer cat]

14. Never fails. nt

[nolabear]

11. Absolute truth. And I'm done with it.

[brer cat]

13. One of the best essays I have read.

[babylonsister]

15. Are you

Expat Girl? Welcome to DU!


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/12/1569228/-Abusive

[Megahurtz]

16. Abuse of Women.

Hillary is being abused so much I feel like I am being abused along with her. And that's a fact.

[Skittles]

17. the fact that she has survived it all is what has earned her my vote

she is one tough gal

[yardwork]

18. Applause! Brava!