2016 Postmortem

Skidmore

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15. I don't have to add anything

Thu Sep 8, 2016, 04:38 PM

Sep 2016

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to this. Except perhaps to point out that so many women throughout history have had to work to support the family. Some times the husband was ill or disabled. Others worked because they were abandoned or had no spouse or relative to support them. Some because they made choices to participate in greater society. Lordy, I love those uppity women. Give me a Hashepsut or a Hypatia or Sappho any day. Give me the woman fishmonger or merchant or miner. The list is endless. Just don't tell me to go sit in my place.

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Why Are We So Hard on Hillary? [View all] niyad Sep 2016 OP

It is her sex, plain and simple. She is a woman, she can't be strong, she has PMS. redstatebluegirl Sep 2016 #1

and yet, when this blatant sexism and misogyny is pointed out, the instantaneous denial and niyad Sep 2016 #2

Me neither! I am tired of being a good girl and keep my peace. redstatebluegirl Sep 2016 #3

alas, I have been neither a good girl, nor quiet!! niyad Sep 2016 #20

Neither will I! calimary Sep 2016 #6

I don't have to add anything Skidmore Sep 2016 #15

in one of my favourite novels, set in victorian england, the woman protagonist has--gasp!!! "gone niyad Sep 2016 #22

What book is that? Thanks n/t madisongrace Sep 2016 #25

I will have to look it up--have read about 70 of this author's books, so will take a minute. niyad Sep 2016 #30

sorry it took so long. the book is "the river knows" by amanda quick, who also writes niyad Sep 2016 #45

you laid it out perfectly. would you please post this as its own OP, for greater visibility, and so niyad Sep 2016 #21

Here: calimary Sep 2016 #33

This should be an OP DemonGoddess Sep 2016 #41

It IS! calimary Sep 2016 #44

And the caution she shas evolved to deal with the sexism also counts against her. Orsino Sep 2016 #46

Years of right wing propaganda and a failed American media Buzz cook Sep 2016 #4

+1, Woman tax... not pointed out enough for me uponit7771 Sep 2016 #5

and just look at the vehement, almost screaming denial, when it IS pointed out, and women are blamed niyad Sep 2016 #23

While I don't disagree that it is much harder for a woman than it is for a man, Stonepounder Sep 2016 #7

There will come a day when 'Corporate Ideology' is studied as an archaic error of the past. byronius Sep 2016 #12

If we manage to hang on that long. Stonepounder Sep 2016 #14

6. The left hates moderate Democrats. nm mr_liberal Sep 2016 #13

excellent post NewJeffCT Sep 2016 #17

she is being held accountable for Bill's messes. rivegauche Sep 2016 #8

boy howdy. mopinko Sep 2016 #9

This has become clear as an #$% bell. byronius Sep 2016 #10

I think a lot of it is from Coolest Ranger Sep 2016 #11

dullards and half-wits are mad because she's a woman who doesn't bake cookies. LanternWaste Sep 2016 #16

I'm sure she does bake cookies DFW Sep 2016 #19

She's a woman stage left Sep 2016 #18

. . . . niyad Sep 2016 #24

the sexism merges with the democratic/republican double-standard. unblock Sep 2016 #26

an excellent response. I remember the criticism that gore was "too intellectual, too brainy", as niyad Sep 2016 #34

because trump is smart, ok. he's very smart. probably the smartest person ever. unblock Sep 2016 #38

yes, of course. how utterly remiss of me to forget his overwhelming intelligence. niyad Sep 2016 #39

Spot on - same dynamic for BHO Cosmocat Sep 2016 #40

Thank you for this thread! This is such an interesing, enlightening Pathwalker Sep 2016 #27

you are most welcome. it is my pleasure. niyad Sep 2016 #31

The republicans are so afraid of having a female president, because if we have demigoddess Sep 2016 #28

Sadly, never truer words. K&R AgadorSparticus Sep 2016 #29

. . . niyad Sep 2016 #32

. . . niyad Sep 2016 #35

Hillary's experience this election has given me an education... LAS14 Sep 2016 #36

the sheer ugliness and hatred toward her is like nothing I have seen in all my decades. and yet, niyad Sep 2016 #37

K&R! DemonGoddess Sep 2016 #42

how DARE we call attention to the deplorable sexism???? why, we might make people uncomfortable niyad Sep 2016 #43