Playing the Sex Card
From the annals of “How to play the sex card while attempting to look like an egalitarian”, comes this article from the LA Times: Drift Away from Clinton Frustrates Many Women. A significant number of women are abandoning the Clinton campaign and that has upset those who remain. It appears the remaining few though, are more interested in the qualities of what sits between a person’s legs, then the quality of the candidate.
From the article referenced above:
“They’re running to the rock star, to the momentum, to the excitement,” said Ewing, a family law attorney who chairs the Dallas County Democratic Party. “And I am worried that if Hillary doesn’t get elected, I am never going to see a woman president in my lifetime. I do think her chances are slipping away, and it [ticks] me off.”
Excuses excuses. People are running from Hillary Clinton because of her horrid voting record — voting for war, privacy violations, for corporate interests, failing to vote against immunity for criminals, e.g., a “get out of jail free” card for phone companies who break the law at the government’s behest.
People are running from Clinton because she is a terrible choice for president. I get the impression however, that a lot of women would vote for a female candidate regardless of her past. She could be a serial killer, a child abuser, or an international terrorist — as long as her nether parts don’t hang down, she’d get their vote:
“I see my whole life going down the drain,” Roberts recounted [Billie Jean] King saying. “A cute young guy comes in and sweeps away all the hard work that the older woman has done.”
That’s such a pile of baloney, you could make lunch for every homeless person in LA with it, and have enough left over to serve most of San Bernadino as well. Fortunately, sexism is not the rule:
Katha Pollitt, an author and columnist for the Nation, is one of the signers [of a petition entitled New York Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama].
“I think Hillary has been the target of a great big set of double standards, and in the end, I do know people who are supporting her because of the misogynistic attacks against her,” Pollitt said.
But she took issue with Steinem’s comparison.
“Even if it were true that white women were more oppressed than black men” — as Steinem suggested — “that still doesn’t mean you should vote for Hillary Clinton,” Pollitt said. “It might mean you should fight for better enforcement of anti-sex-discrimination rules, but it doesn’t mean you should vote for the candidate most likely to wage a war. “