2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, the continued use of "coronation" and "queen" is sexist. [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)70 year old woman here. Seen it all. Fought many feminist battles. To play these "gotcha" word games trivializes feminism.
And I truly believe that IF and when Queen Hillary is crowned, the long and noble struggle for women's rights will be besmirched, possibly beyond repair, by her wars and her corruption and and her complete disregard and malfeasance toward the poor majority in general and poor women in particular.
And further: whether she loses in November (IF she's nominated)--and I think her losing the GE is probable given her astonishingly low numbers on favorability and trustworthiness--or whether she wins (which I think is only possible with Republican meltdown), followed by a scandal-ridden, single term (very probable), she will sour the chances for much more worthy women to be elected president.
For the very reason that she, David Brock and her supporters have associated her campaign with feminism--and have used every nasty trick in the Brock playbook to portray Sanders supporters as "sexist white males"--feminism will suffer, and women in politics will suffer.
I think her queenship will be a disaster for the country, and a disaster for women--whether women in places like Honduras and Libya, or women here who aren't rich, have no servants and have no leisure to play word games, and are working two shit-pay jobs just to feed their children, or are working into their 70s because they can't eat, pay rent and buy needed medications--can't live--on Social Security, or whatever condition of poverty they are in. It's fine for privileged women not to have a "glass ceiling"--I totally support that--but most women live under a ceiling that they can't even seen through, let alone hope to penetrate--a steel ceiling that threatens to fall down on them every day and crush them with financial worries, lack of opportunity and family responsibilities.
This is the Corporate Plan--the Koch Brothers Plan, the Walmart Plan, the TPP Plan--and it gravely harms women, especially women with children, here and in other countries where "free trade for the rich" has destroyed small peasant farms and created slave labor conditions in factories, and are destroying one sacred place after another with profoundly bad impacts on Indigenous women
Hillary Clinton supports all this crushing of poor women and other poor people, and poisoning the very life out of Mother Earth. She is NOT a feminist. Yet people come here to DU and foist these stupid games on us about not calling her a "queen."
Anyone who can unleash a nuclear holocaust destroying all life on earth is a monarch, whether male or female. That has been the reality since the year I was born. Additional powers and perks and protections have been piled onto the presidency since, but that is the heart of the matter. It wasn't meant to be a monarchy, but it is. And Clinton adds varnish to that tragic reality with her imperial manner and highly rigged campaign for her "inevitable" coronation.
We may still get an anti-monarch nominated--an extraordinary man with no imperial ambitions--and he will win the GE by a landslide, with his sky-high favorability and trustworthy numbers. And he is certain to be better for women and the real feminist cause: liberation from poverty and opportunity for all. He will also act immediately on climate change and gear up the country to solve this tremendous crisis--a crisis like none other that the human race has faced, the demise of Mother Earth as a habitable home for us all. That's a true feminist.