Posted on 06/19/2014 1:32:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Charges of sexism are overhyped—and after all, she's encouraged people to just use her first name.
I’ve spent the last few months on a longish essay about what kind of president Hillary Clinton would be. Writing about her record in government proved challenging. So did writing her name.
With most politicians, it’s easy. First reference: You write their first and last name. Second reference: last name, plus title if you’re feeling formal. With the former senator and secretary of state, however, it’s trickier. Calling her “Clinton” poses an obvious problem, especially if—like me—you’re simultaneously writing about the other Clinton who served as president. “Former Secretary of State Clinton” is cumbersome. So I did what many journalists do: I went with “Hillary.”
Is that sexist? According to some people, yes. As Chicago Tribune editor Jane Fritsch argued in 2007, “The simple fact is that Hillary Rodham Clinton is running in a field of men who are never referred to by their first names ....The argument that we call her Hillary to avoid confusion is a weak one. There are easy alternatives .... Certainly the problem created by the existence of two presidents named George Bush has been a difficult one, but we found ways to solve it without diminishing George W. Bush.”
There’s no doubt that sexism has warped the coverage of women candidates in general, and Hillary Clinton in particular. The academic research proves it. Women politicians are forever navigating between the Scylla of being considered too tough and therefore unlikeable and the Charybdis of being considered too feminine and therefore not tough enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I call her HiLIARy
We all prefer Hitlery. It’s more accurate.
I remember the stories about when Bill was President and Hillary would enter the West Wing. Everybody had to scramble and hide in cubes and offices with the doors closed until she left. No one was allowed to make eye contact with her, and God help the person who spoke to her without being spoken to.
Just don’t call her at 3am.
I call her Cutlery
I’ve heard her called names you can’t say here
Mrs. Clinton
She is Hillary Clinton, or Mrs Clinton.
Let us avoid leftist branding that distances her from her husband and the 8 years of mayhem in office that they both produced.
What is Hillary? In 1992 this article (below) exposed the supernatural entity called “Hillary Rodham Clinton” at the time.
CoastToCoastAm Stuff! This "human" is the result of shape-shifting.
Hillary Clinton Says She Once Tried to Be Marine
[Hillary's] . . . blur of [claims of] different roles . . . "We sense that we aren't seeing the 'real' Hillary, and this makes us very nervous." . . . the nation has become accustomed to Mrs. Clinton's intriguing shape-shifting -- [including wanting to be a Marine in macho contrast to husband Bill Clinton]. [A] macho contrast to a President who [admitted] "loathing" the military.
Personally, I still think Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton is the most appropriate thing to call her, because that is why she is where she is.
Being called Mrs Thatcher was good enough for her.
Mrs. Monica’s-ex-boyfriend
Mrs. Bill Clinton. She wouldn’t be running for president if she hadn’t held on to her meal ticket.
Defender of Benghazi and Keeper of the FBI Files
Scouts out! Cavalry Ho!
Would-be & actual dictators often go by a single name:
1) Stalin.
2) Fidel.
3) Che.
4) Mao.
Tuesday night I turn over to CNN and they are playing a interview with Hillary, and then I flip over to Fox two seconds later and Gretta is doing an interview with Hillary.
I don’t know which one (or either of them) were live, but she’s really trying to sell her book, or she’s getting ahead of all candidates.
By the way, the 5 minutes that I watched of the Fox interview they treated her with kids gloves.
Laughing, giggling with her. It made me want to puke.
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