"Hillary Clinton’s all-American scarlet letter"

[Nonhlanhla]

7. I have been thinking for a while

that the underlying logic of much of the Bernie people's negative campaign against Hillary is based on the oldest textbook in the world: the narrative of the scarlet woman. The idea that Hillary's ties to Wall Street amounts to her being bought, is just a variant of calling her a certain word starting with "wh..." There was even a recent thread that echoed the old joke about the man offering money to the woman and when they haggle about the price, he says "we both already know what you are, we're just haggling about the price." Ha ha, very funny.

(Not dissing sex workers here, by the way, but we're talking about the age-old smearing of women as either pure as snow, Mary, or defiled and sexually available-for-a-price Eve. This dichotomoy is as old as the hills and still more prevalent than people realize.)