The sexist way we pile on Hillary Clinton and stifle women in democracy

The Hill ^ | June 8, 2017 | Maya Rockeymoore

[Zakeet]

The level of vitriol she has received from mostly male commentators as she has shared her thoughts about the election's results - with one journalist telling her to "shut up and go home" - has been on par with that she was subject to during the campaign itself.

And since almost all of the most prominently circulated political journalists are men, it's worth asking if most men, regardless of background, possess the analytical capacity to provide an accurate assessment of what happened to Secretary Clinton's candidacy independent of their deeply ingrained socialized biases.

[Snip]

People need to stop piling on to Hillary Clinton.

Allow this public servant the dignity and space to go through her own process of reflecting on and reconciling her historic candidacy without having to be incessantly mocked, shamed, or silenced.

She is allowed her own opinions.

Let's hear them and respect them.

[Zakeet]

The World's Smartest Woman is allowed her own opinions and you need to hear them and respect them ... so you Freepers should stop mocking, shaming and silencing her ... so lay off of the criminalization that Secretary Clinton experienced (i.e., Benghazi, emails, a private server, "Crooked Hillary", and "lock her up") ... her drinking problem ... her medical problems ... her lesbian affair with Huma ... the people that she has killed ... her cankles ... her compulsive lying ... her enabling Bubba's sexcapades ... etc. Above all, you need to treat her with the same dignity and respect that the media gives to President Trump!

[meadsjn]

It is true that Hillary has never gotten what she deserved.

[camle]

like the same way YOU leftists treat sarah palin?

[Cicero]

Shut up and go home, Maya!

[sodpoodle]

BINGO!!!!

[Jim W N]

Please. Don’t sue the word “sex” and “Hillary” in the same sentence. The thought is too traumatic.

[48th SPS Crusader]

When you are a lying, corrupt criminal politician it matters not if you are a man or a women. You deserve everything heaped on you!

[KC_Lion]

Sarah Palin sends her regards you Progressive Smucks.

[Flick Lives]

Bingo!

[Col Frank Slade]

Well then Biden is a sexist pig for criticizing Hillary’s failed campaign.

[Cecily]

Boo hoo, Maya. If men like Donald Trump have to take never-ending abuse from the media, everybody else on the Left and even his own party, then delicate little Hillary can take her share of criticism. Quit whining.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore (pictured with her husband) leads Global Policy Solutions, a Washington, DC-based policy firm that makes policy work for people and their environments. A former adjunct professor in the Women in Politics Institute at American University, Maya has also served as the vice president of research and programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), senior resident scholar at the National Urban League, chief of staff to Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY), professional staff on the House Ways and Means Committee, and as a CBCF legislative fellow in the office of Congressman Melvin Watt (D-NC) among other positions.

http://globalpolicysolutions.com/portfolio-items/maya-rockeymoore-president-and-ceo/

[chris37]

Make yourself useful, Maya, and go fix me a sandwich.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Wow! What does it say about me that I read ‘The sexiest way we pile on Hillary...’?

[DoughtyOne]

Maya, Maya, Maya...

I have never even once over thirty years made a criticism of Clinton that included anything even close to this, “...because she’s a woman...”

I have always been specific about her actions, and if a man had made them, I’d have trashed him too.

You’re an asshole. You can’t accept that we criticize Hillary Clinton for cause, thus you project onto us a bigotry that you exhibit, because we won’t simply give her a pass for being a woman.

[jacknhoo]

‘Nuf said.

[Stepan12]

I hope Hillary continues on the campaign trail. I hope she blames everyone from Macedonia to the New York Slimes. She means less votes for the Democrats. YOU GO GIRL!

[Morpheus2009]

Considering how it has been seven months of Hillary complaining and making excuses for losing, it’s time for her to shut up and move forward. If she doesn’t, well she shouldn’t be surprised how some people are really fed up with her continued whining. I have never seen a loser of an election drag on like she has.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

If Hillary were quietly contemplating her failures instead of being ‘out there’ with her incessant excuses as to how it ‘wasn’t her fault; it was the Russians, the Whites, the Middle Class, the Deplorables(!), we would be more than happy to let her, like the old soldier she isn’t even worthy to clean the boots of, just simply fade away.