America loves women like Hillary Clinton–as long as they’re not asking for a promotion

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16. This is what I've been saying all along.

Whenever a Bernie supporter says, "But I'm not sexist! I would happily vote for a woman -- just not Hillary Clinton. I would vote for Elizabeth Warren!", I point out that Elizabeth Warren is not running. She is popular precisely because she is not running. If she were running, suddenly she would become an "ambitious" woman, and many of her current supporters would quickly find reasons not to support her.

Our society loves women who know their place. It's when we dare to believe in ourselves that we are hated -- by men and women alike.

This is really not very different from the views that reigned five hundred years ago: there were the "good" women, who were wives, mothers, or nuns, and the "bad" women, who were witches or prostitutes. If you were a woman who dared to have an opinion of your own, you quickly found yourself in the category of women who were feared and hated. It's sad to see that in many ways we haven't come very far at all since those days.