2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why Are We So Hard on Hillary? [View all]DFW
(55,994 posts)But when SHE wants to, and not just because someone else tells her to. THAT's what has had so many people twisted in knots since 1992.
Don't kid yourself--Merkel gets bashed for her gender, MANY women in power, especially in high profile countries, get crap for a thousand made-up reasons other than the real one. Gandhi, Bhutto, Thatcher, Ciller, they all have/had to put up with it. Ghandi and Bhutto paid with their lives, even if, granted, the ostensible reason for their assassinations were different. Women leaders fuck up just like men do (see: Brazil, Argentina)--they just have to put up with the additional crap as well.
The one thing I have to wonder about--the Republican women in the Senate, for the most part (not morons like Joni Ernst) will not take kindly to the gender bashing of President Hillary, no matter WHAT party she's from, and they will recognize it as well as their Democratic counterparts. Murkowski, Collins, they know the score.