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The Treatment of Hillary Clinton Shows Sexism Pervades Society

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Cross patch..... women assulting men is far more common is america.... so you might want to use a bit of common since before posting....
esspcialy since your being sexist on your post.... "tesotrone poisend men"
you sound like a man hater...... did you get dumped one to many times?
testosron is the only reason your alive.... it allowed men to build a stable country like america and protect it from lions, tigers and bears.
women tend to be far more sexist then men, and your a good example.... making sexist comments in your comment, quoting mis leading information.......
how is a women being assulted sexist, or women hate?.... for all we know she got into an arugment and got a smack to the face for it.... thats not sexist, thats assult.
and then there is the fact that women hit men rougly 9x more often...... and your whole argument falls apart, the only thing your comment shows is that your sexist your self..... or you have female enetiment syndrom.
its time for us to stop treating women like little kids with the privigles of adults.... and stop demanding women act like reponsible non sexist adults.... or start losing both there eqaul rights and there special treatment.

cool of CT 1:27PM March 21, 2012

lets remeber that hillary cliton is very sexist her self, as well as most women.
one of the reasons that we dont want a female president is that we know for a fact that she will try to enact sexist laws that give more special treatment to women..... thats just how most women are.
if we have a female president, chances are, she will try to give women more special treatment....... and they already have too much that needs to be taken away.....
in fact, women are so sexist, and so taken over by there female entitment syndrom, that its hard to find a women that can ever recognize sexism against men, let alone one that knows how to be gender nutral.
a women cant be president at this time, untill they evolve past the protected and taken care of creatures they once were...... men have moved forward but women stay traped in the past.... begging for eqaul pay, but then wanting men to pay for there dinner...... wanting us to call them eqaul, but then asking for lower standerds to get into militiary or college.
any sexism that went against hilary cliton was matched by her own sexist attutides to men.
indeed.... no wonder should be trusted to be president with out a very detailed evaluation to see how sexist she is, and how sever her female entimtent syndrom is..... untill women finaly evolve to be eqaul to men, or almost eqaul, so they can use things like basic logic and evolve to the point were most women no longer act like children who need the tiolet seat operated for them at age 30

cool of CT 1:21PM March 21, 2012

Sexism is alive and well in America (iron my shirts!). But misogyny is even worse. Just look at a newspaper any day of the week and note how many times women are assaulted, maimed, raped and murdered by testosterone poisoned men who hate women. Women are regarded as nothing more than property or playthings to be taken advantage of by men. Even Jon Favreau's groping episode was accepted as a young man just having fun. Give me a break. This behavior would never be accepted if perpetrated against black Americans. This "woman lynching" has got to stop!

CrossPatch of GA 10:59PM January 19, 2009

Big media has been after Bill/Hill since it became apparent that they were a capable team; their biggest sin working for the good of the people.
Having said that, Hill has been the target of unending criticism at least since the healh care initiative she headed, failed. Not much wonder she began the election with a low poll rating.
Like Sarah Palin, Hill is the real deal. The powerful don't want that type of competition. And it has taken me two years to understand that the Democratic Party does not care about its longtime members. At least not the ones who are less than well-heeled.

PamelaofthePoconos of 3:48PM January 17, 2009

By the feminist as noted in the treatment of Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin is quite an embarrassment to the usual Leftist Feminists gaggle. She has done ALL the things they espoused to do. But they were just aghast at such goings on. Especially flummoxed are the selfish and churlish childless ones.
How can someone accomplish even more than darling Caroline and have FIVE kids.
But it ended up the country was more enamored with her than the elite wanted. So she gets trashed as usual.
Likely too late, but they still have the media to do their usual nasty appeasement work for them.

billie of 3:02PM January 16, 2009

of how some women manage to tweak, cajole and shmooze a sexist system to their own advantage. Her performance in the one debate her handlers allowed was the closest thing I've ever seen to a female version of a stupid-darky minstrel show. She and her clueless running mate didn't lose because of sexism.
Hillary Clinton was a blind that naive Obama supporters hid behind throughout the primary season. Any criticism of him was typically met with hysterical anti-"Hillary" rants or various rehashings of the first Clinton administration, and that's going to come back and bite our new President in the butt big time over the next four years.
Clinton was heckled during one speech with a sign saying "Iron My Shirt!" and it barely made a ripple in the coverage, good only for a few chuckles on right-wing talk radio. Imagine the shrieks of righteous outrage if someone held up a sign at an Obama rally saying "Pick Us Some Cotton, Boy!" But a sexist heckling of "Hillary"? No problem.
It's also worth noting that "Hillary" was the only candidate, including Sarah Palin, who wasn't even given the courtesy of a last name.

"Mary Hays" of MO 11:52AM January 16, 2009

what why would you do that she is just a normal human being

lee of IN 6:55PM January 15, 2009

Sarah Palin is quite an embarrassment to the usual Leftist Feminists gaggle. She has done ALL the things the espoused to do. But they were just aghast at such goings on. Especially flummoxed are the selfish and churlish childless ones. How can someone accomplish even more than darling Caroline and have FIVE kids.
But it ended up the country was more enamored with her than the elite wanted. So she gets trashed as usual.
Likely to late, but they still have the media to do their usual nasty appeasement work for them.

bill of KS 5:57PM January 15, 2009

You totally missed the mark on Rush Limbaugh's comments about Hillary ageing in the White House (not surprising for a journalist on PBS). He was asking if a country like ours, that promotes beauty and youth in women as the end-all-be-all in our entertainment industry, whether we could stand to watch a women grow old. Look at all the older actresses in Hollywood that botox their faces and plump their lips until they're unrecognizable. Why do they do this? Well, they must have it in their heads that society doesn't want to see them on TV and in the movies growing old and wrinkly. THAT'S what Rush was referring to. He wasn't expressing this as his own personal opinion. If you had listened to the context of his statements, you would have understood this. As a 40 year old woman, I did.

lynne of NY 10:47AM January 15, 2009

Hillary was treated badly and Palin worse. But who could apologize for all of it?
The Clintons have let the media beat up on them for too long. They should at least start some competition to Huff Post. It's ridiculous that when Hillary or RFK Jr wanted to make a statement, they had to use Huff Post to do it.
As for women not sticking together -- it's hard when token women are up front, like CK, a puppet of her male relatives and of Obama.
I hope you NY women will come out for Maloney or Cuomo -- or at least against the unqualified, pretentious CK.

fsteele of CO 5:23AM January 15, 2009