Of course this is no news: if a film lacks the ritual humilation of the heroine, that means there is no important woman character. From Austen's Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse to Hillary Clinton countless times. How many times must she undergo a gruelling interrogation, expensive, confronted by hostile men, who are all the more grated upon because as the latest humiliator said, there are "no reasonable man" would go to court with this.
I continue to fulfill my promise to present photographs of Hillary Clinton which lead me sympathize with her: I love this photo. her stance is of someone enduring this but her instinctive lines on her face tell us of other painful hard impulses to control.
Hillary Clinton this past Saturday enduring another three hours
Millions spent to find something to blame her for in Benghazi, thousands and thousands over her use of servers, emails, internet correspondences, her very Blackberries have been gathered and rigorously scrutinized. This morning the Washington Post said how "extraordinary" was Corney's behavior for coming out to make a 15 minute speech excoriating her. So too last night Judy Woodruff on PBS.
Usually when there is no case, that's the end of it. The fool Ruth Marcus on the Post's opinion page congratulated him for "clearing the air." What? He spewed out lines and lines for Republicans and those who cannot stand the thought of a woman in power as ammunition.
Bad judgement I hear that putative husband say.
Will they never tire of this? not until she goes away, broken. She's not.
The photo: she's looking down. For a moment resting her eyes. The cell phone her barrier. It's the ununsual lack of a hair style that touches me. Would that she pulled her hair back like that more often.
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Update, 7//2016: It does worry me this morning that Repubilcans will use this to defeat her and put Donald Trump into the presidency. They don't care that he is in fact corrupt, fraudulent, ought to be indicted for his fake university schemes; all they care is do they individually get into office and they put in place problems to further immiserate the vast majority of Americans and enrichen themselves and their friends. Comey is being gruelled today as to why he didn't indict her. The Post today had a column by someone saying Comey's speech was an egregious abuse of power. When you chose not to indict someone you do not come out and excoriate them. He did it because she's a woman: forsooth women are not to be trusted with "serious things of the world." Thank you to Mike Powe for "Hillary's Problem." As I say in one of my replies below, I feel she was also trying to protect her private ilfe (her daughter is part of that).
Miss Drake
I continue to fulfill my promise to present photographs of Hillary Clinton which lead me sympathize with her: I love this photo. her stance is of someone enduring this but her instinctive lines on her face tell us of other painful hard impulses to control.
Hillary Clinton this past Saturday enduring another three hours
Millions spent to find something to blame her for in Benghazi, thousands and thousands over her use of servers, emails, internet correspondences, her very Blackberries have been gathered and rigorously scrutinized. This morning the Washington Post said how "extraordinary" was Corney's behavior for coming out to make a 15 minute speech excoriating her. So too last night Judy Woodruff on PBS.
Usually when there is no case, that's the end of it. The fool Ruth Marcus on the Post's opinion page congratulated him for "clearing the air." What? He spewed out lines and lines for Republicans and those who cannot stand the thought of a woman in power as ammunition.
Bad judgement I hear that putative husband say.
Will they never tire of this? not until she goes away, broken. She's not.
The photo: she's looking down. For a moment resting her eyes. The cell phone her barrier. It's the ununsual lack of a hair style that touches me. Would that she pulled her hair back like that more often.
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Update, 7//2016: It does worry me this morning that Repubilcans will use this to defeat her and put Donald Trump into the presidency. They don't care that he is in fact corrupt, fraudulent, ought to be indicted for his fake university schemes; all they care is do they individually get into office and they put in place problems to further immiserate the vast majority of Americans and enrichen themselves and their friends. Comey is being gruelled today as to why he didn't indict her. The Post today had a column by someone saying Comey's speech was an egregious abuse of power. When you chose not to indict someone you do not come out and excoriate them. He did it because she's a woman: forsooth women are not to be trusted with "serious things of the world." Thank you to Mike Powe for "Hillary's Problem." As I say in one of my replies below, I feel she was also trying to protect her private ilfe (her daughter is part of that).
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Me: People have also attacked her and her husband's foundation and found nothing; it does a good deal of good. Every rock in their garden has been turned over several times.
By this time had she or he done anything wrong, indictable, we would know it.
Edited at 2016-07-06 01:42 pm (UTC)
"I have admired the way she consistently butted the glass ceiling and succeeded, always having to prove herself in ways men would not have had to do; always grilled and questioned (and then: no evidence of wrongdoing beyond what lawyers and businessmen and politicians do daily); not necessarily 'likable' but persistent and keeping the interests of women close to her heart and to her advocacy; and a quiet philanthropist. She has given up a great deal to attain what she has attained--I'll warrant, more than any man in her circumstances. Maybe this is me using the 'woman card.' If so, I think I'll re-name it the 'sexism card.'"
Me: I don't accept this policing of us into silence on the source of these persistent attacks. The paradigm is familiar, and everywhere: from films to books, to real life. Those who sneer at the "woman card" are those who want to attack her (and us) freely. It reminds me of those who will have no gun control: they are "tired" of hearing these solutions as if repeating them made them any less true.
Edited at 2016-07-06 01:56 pm (UTC)
E.M.
As Senator, she was a "good mother" to constituents who needed her help. She hires excellent staff. So, once she has power and she acts like a nurturer/protector then she's OK. That's my interpretation of the data."
Last year the Pew Research Center published a timeline of HRC's favorability ratings. It's instructive. When she was going after power, her ratings plummeted. After she got the position she had gone after, when she was actually exercising this power, her ratings became very good. Again and again it has happened. http://www.people-press.org/.../hillary-clinton-approval.../
Edited at 2016-07-06 07:40 pm (UTC)
Edited at 2016-07-07 11:37 am (UTC)
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hillarys-problem-the-government-classifies-everything
Clare
They will never tire of it. But remember, the Republicans are desperate to defeat Hillary Clinton. Desperate. Don't let this beat you down. This is all part of psychological warfare to divert energy from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.