Hillary Clinton isn’t a feminist; she is just politically ambitious
This question has become even more pertinent as one of the front-runners in the Republican Party is the misogynistic, racist, xenophobic and narcissistic Donald Trump, who has turned his campaign into a C-grade reality TV show, complete with swear words and derogatory names for women.
Surprisingly, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has divided, rather than united, women. Younger women, it appears, prefer the other Democratic Party candidate, the left-leaning, anti-war Bernie Sanders, whose popularity seems to be rising.
Older feminists who are in Hillary’s age-group, such as the iconic Gloria Steinem, are supporting her simply because she is a woman, as they believe it is time that the world’s only superpower had a woman at the helm.
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Repeat it enough times.... claim that we all need to listen to right wing sources, like Priebus. Yep, if The Republican National Committee chairman says it's true... well by golly you better believe a bunch of Bernie supporters are going to post it as fact.
Just sayin.... I mean this just happened here in this thread. I'm not making shit up.
DU is like being on a RW site. 24/7 attacks on the Clintons, even when they are unfounded lies.
Ask the women of Honduras, Iraq, Libya and Syria how Hillary's regime change is working for them. Ask the 3-strikes widows, who's kids are forced to raise themselves, how welfare reform is working for them. Ask the mothers and sisters of the "gangs of super-predators" how Hillary is helping them.
Besides, her claim to have put a million cracks in the glass ceiling rings false, when in fact she largely rode her husband's political career to this point.
How dare a woman be politically ambitious!!
On the flip side, you didn't even use the best part of the article that at least makes the argument:
Yet Hillary, who is now claiming to be a feminist, did not stand in sisterhood with her then because only by standing by her man could she achieve her political ambitions.
Feminists who claim that Hillary is a women’s rights defender should ponder the fates of Lewinsky and the many other women whose reputations and lives lie in tatters because of her husband.
For me, even as a supporter, this is something I wish her, or her campaign would address. I'm guessing it probably has something to do with the notion that there is nothing she could say that wouldn't be used against her by someone.
Hillary is the most qualified candidate running in this election. It's ridiculous to pretend that her qualifications and support are determined by her gender. Damn offensive!!!
Young women who had never had to struggle for equality don't know what their grandmothers had to go through in the workforce and their daily lives to achieve a modicum of equality. My mother became a feminist and a supporter of abortion early on. She once told me that she got tired of seeing so many women of little means dying or being left sterile because they couldn't afford a doctor to perform their abortions. A lot of these women were married, but the kids kept coming and there wasn't enough money to food so many mouths. Abortions were not only about unmarried women.
Hillary has fought for women's rights since she was a young girl herself and some are now questioning her bonafides in that area???? Bull crap!!!! Young women can vote for Sanders all they want, but that doesn't change that generations of women came before them so that they would have the right to vote and the right to apply to any job. In the 60s they still had job ads stating that women needed not to apply.
BTW, why is the media not calling all the men running "politically ambitious"? Trump, is a narcissistic carnival barker. Cruz is a poster boy for ambition and self serving politics. His own party detests him. Rubio is not ready for prime time.
And how about Sanders? The democratic Socialist who spent his entire political career as an Independent, who ran against Democrats and who for decades refused to join the Democratic party. Oh no, he's not ambitious. He's the milk of human kindness and not a scrappy politician from VT via Brooklyn.
I'M SICK AND TIRED of the jerks that keep calling Hillary ambitious as if every single person who has ever ran for president has not been ambitious. As usual, women have to work harder just to be considered equal to men. She has more experience in a variety of roles within government than anyone else running, but she's being called ambitious as if that's a bad thing for a woman to be.
THE HELL WITH THEM ALL!!!
