Are We Ready For a Woman President? Really?

That does not mean that Hillary Clinton, who has the connections, wealth, family name, power and education to launch a campaign is disadvantaged by anything. Many women are victims of gender stereotypes and are disadvantaged by social attitudes and institutions.

“Hillary, who is very shrill — do you know the word ‘shrill’?” Trump said to a crowd of a few hundred at a convention center here Wednesday afternoon. “She can be kind of sha-riiiiill.”

I don't think gender is an issue with her candidacy,

That Clinton was a "nag" was a common attack in 2008. Maybe that one has grown thin, but I doubt it.

Packaging Hillary as a disadvantaged woman struggling to make it is nothing but shameless political marketing from a group of people who feel that Hillary is Entitled to the White House.

My issue is this. To a Hillary supporter, every criticism of Hillary, from partisan Congressional investigations to joke gifts is misogyny.

The idea that the Benghazi investigation is motivated by misogyny has been repeated at least a couple times on this thread.

A group that’s referring to itself as Hillary Clinton’s “Super Volunteers” has promised to track when the media uses “coded” sexist words — such as “ambitious” and “insincere” — to describe her, according to New York Times political reporter Amy Chozick. The other forbidden words and phrases are “polarizing,” “calculating,” “disingenuous,” “insincere,” “ambitious,” “inevitable,” “entitled,” “over-confident,” “secretive,” “will do anything to win,” “represents the past” and “out of touch.” The idea is either that when these words are used to describe her more often than male candidates or that when they are used to describe her at all there is some kind of negative connotation attached to them that’s rooted in sexism. Good thing they warned me. Otherwise I at some point might have called her “insincere” or “disingenuous” — because she, you know, is. Just earlier this week she vowed she was beginning a new, open relationship with the media during a speech and then refused to take questions after it. Oh, and while we’re at it: Using your private e-mail for official government business and pretending it was a matter of “convenience” seems pretty damn deceitful. But I guess we can’t call her what she is, and the reason we can’t is that she’s a woman. You see how ridiculous it is to consider this a feminist point of view, right?

I don’t doubt that it’s tougher for female politicians in a lot of ways. Sexism is still a big problem. If you disagree, go ahead and spend 14 seconds reading an Internet comments section and then tell me I’m wrong. It’s true, a lot of people think that women can’t handle the same things that men can. But here’s the thing: Doesn’t creating a whole set of special “rules” for Hillary just because she’s a female reinforce that idea? I don’t know how to solve the problem of women not being treated like other candidates — but not treating them differently from other candidates because they’re women sure does seem like a good start to me.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416065/k-katherine-timpf

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The idea that the Benghazi investigation is motivated by misogyny has been repeated at least a couple times on this thread.

A search for the letters "beng" on all ten pages of this thread led to one hit, your post. (Now it will lead to four since I used it twice and quoted you!) I'm using IE11, so everything is a little suspect, but I think you were the first to mention Benghazi.

If you have a link showing where Clinton supporters on A2K are saying the email server "scandal" is misogyny, feel free to post it. I've seen comments saying it is politically based and ones saying it shows her lack of transparency and trustworthiness, but I haven't noticed anyone trying to shut it down by saying it is misogyny.

I read the premise of this thread as questioning in broader terms the hurdles a woman would face as opposed to a man. That Clinton supporters play the misogyny card regularly is, as far as I can tell, a position unique to a few anti-Clinton posters.

I read the premise of this thread as questioning in broader terms the hurdles a woman would face as opposed to a man. That Clinton supporters play the misogyny card regularly is, as far as I can tell, a position unique to a few anti-Clinton posters.

I would vote for Hillary over Trump without blinking an eye (have you seen his hair?).

Too bad . Can you justify this?

Thats terrible, you have no taste at all!