Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forum3 Ways to Tell if Your Distaste For Hillary Clinton is Sexist
Hillary Clinton is an emotional and political lightning rod. Of this there is absolutely no doubt. If you do a Google search for why people dislike Hillary Clinton, you get over a million entries with titles such as, Our Love/Hate Relationship with Hillary Clinton Will Never End, The Jarring Reasons People Dont Want Hillary Clinton to Be President and Why Do Young People Have Such Visceral Dislike for Hillary? Her own advocates are willing to stipulate that liking her is not even necessary to vote for her.
Clearly, there is more to this question of likability that needs to be interrogated. Likability is not gender neutral. Neither are most of the decisions we make, despite our desire to be prejudice-free. The 2016 presidential election is awash in explicit expressions of racism, sexism and xenophobia, leaving me wondering about the ways in which race and gender are implicitly shaping ordinary citizens views of the campaign.
Implicit messages are more insidious because they are consumed and deployed beyond the realm of consciousness. We need not think deeply to identify the racism in Donald Trumps depiction of Mexican immigrants as rapists or the sexism of his asking if Megyn Kellys tough questions were due to her being on her period. Identifying subtler racist and sexist cues is more challenging, however, because no one is immune to these subtleties, engaged in personal and public anti-racist and anti-sexist work
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/17/3-ways-to-tell-if-your-distaste-for-hillary-clinton-is-sexist/
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)Without being told I'm "playing the gender card" or "the woman card" or worse, the whole "vagina voter" bullshit. As a feminist this has been one of my largest frustrations with the primaries.
brer cat
(24,562 posts)and it applies to racism as well. btw I overheard two men discussing Hillary and one said he guessed he would have to vote for her if Trump was the alternative, but he was really worried that she would "have a hot flash and suddenly push the button setting off a nuclear bomb." smh and gobsmacked.
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)There are, or shouldn't be, any more free rides when it comes to racism.
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DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)points to many things which most won't admit to.
wryter2000
(46,039 posts)That women are guilty of this as well as men. Not as prone to behave this way, I'm sure, but some still do.
spooky3
(34,444 posts)We are not isolated individuals. The system that sends and reinforces these messages sends them to women as well as to men.
wryter2000
(46,039 posts)eom