Posted on 09/28/2016 4:18:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Whatever happened to "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar"? Whither "Girl Power"? When did Rosie the Riveter's "We Can Do It!" give way to Hillary the Haranguer's "We Can't Handle It"?
It's 2016, and the Democrats' feminist heroine running for commander in chief is whinnying about being -- wait for it -- interrupted.
Quick! Prepare a complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Poor, fragile, defenseless Hillary Clinton is a victim of the international human rights crime of serial conversational obstruction.
Mainstream media outlets (also known as the Coalition of Liberal Narrative-Benders For Hillary) howled about the unconscionable injustice after Monday's first presidential debate.
"Donald Trump Interrupted Hillary Clinton 51 Times at Debate," moaned US Weekly, which is owned by Clinton supporter and longtime Clinton donor Jann Wenner.
"Donald Trump couldn't stop interrupting Hillary Clinton," complained The Huffington Post, founded by female Cambridge Union debating champ Arianna Huffington.
Then there were the female writers for left-wing Vox who balked at Trump's 51 interruptions involving "petulant asides," "loud, insistent filibusters," and the "one-word, schoolboy-like 'Not'."
Clinton supporters to Clinton: Slaaaay, Queen!
Trump to Clinton: "Not."
Oh, no. The oppressive "Not!" Queen slayed.
The Vox gals (is "gals" a trigger?) cited research dating back to the moldy-oldy 1970s about the ravaging effect of workplace interruptus on wimmin. Playing Clinton's narrative amplifiers, they commiserated. "For most women in the workplace, the phenomenon is exhaustingly familiar."
Still feeling verbally battered Tuesday morning, Clinton's old crony fixer and bagman, campaign chair John Podesta, told reporters that Trump's interruptions were "reminiscent of the way a lot of women feel about bullies in their lives." Female reporters Andrea Mitchell and Jennifer Epstein dutifully tweeted Podesta's dog whistle to feminists.
Spare me, you shameless sacks of spin.
Un-stage-managed debates usually involve spontaneous and contentious back and forth. Without the jibes and jeers and repartee and sighs and side-eyes, you're not debating. You're side-by-side monologuing with a Kabuki moderator keeping time and warming a seat.
Seriously, what kind of role model for girls is a female presidential candidate who claims to be "ready to lead" -- yet whose campaign cries sexism whenever she's confronted with anything less than full and complete obeisance in the public square?
Remember: Clinton similarly suffered from acute interruptophobia during campaign forums with daytime talk show diva Matt Lauer and primary opponent Bernie Sanders.
Ironically, the Clinton campaign publicized a letter this week from the candidate to a 7-year-old schoolgirl encouraging her to always "make your voice heard." She advised her young fan to not "be afraid to carve out a space of your own." Sound advice. But you can't have it both ways, sister. Either you're a strong woman warrior capable of handling anything -- or you're a grievance-mongering grouser who can't out-bellow the boys.
I speak from experience. Growing up, I was a small, shy brown girl afraid to assert myself. I was petrified to talk in front of my classmates. I was too humble to claim credit for my own work. I was invisible because I made myself invisible.
Then I grew up and refused to defer to anyone because if I didn't speak up for myself, nobody would. I didn't come from a privileged background. I didn't marry into power. I didn't ask anyone to give me a platform. I worked for it and made my own. Most importantly, I learned to stop waiting for my turn.
Feminism is supposed to be about holding your own, not about being entitled to everyone else holding their tongues in your sainted presence.
In 21st-century America, there is nothing holding girls and women back from amplifying their message. If male pushback and "petulant asides" bruise your egos, you put some ice on that, to borrow a phrase, hold your ground, and tell the interrupters to hush.
You control your volume button. Don't remonstrate. Roar.
Bravo!!
If she can’t stand the heat, she needs to get out of the kitchen. My guess, she never cooked a meal in her lazy fat ass life. Looking at her size, she has eaten a lot of them and most were probably “free” or stolen......
Hillary’s lucky that Trump merely interrupted her and that slanderous character assassin styled as a ‘moderator’.
She should count her lucky stars.
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... and blast from the past ...
Tainted Blood Scandal
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[Just one tiny section ...]
The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart,FL) 3/11/99 James Carroll Freeper Wallaby “…he following story has been front-page news in Canada. However, since it contains no sex, it has been largely ignored by the mainstream media in the U.S. I hope you agree that the American public needs to know about this. On Feb. 24, angry Canadians called for a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into the sale of infected blood to the Canadian government that was forcibly taken from prison inmates in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor. Dozens of hemophiliacs have already died from Hepatitis C and the HIV virus as a result of this tainted blood, and it’s expected that hundreds, if not thousands of people will die over the next few years….”
Hillary Clinton has never accomplished anything on her own. She rode Bill’s coattails into the senate, and 0bama’s into the State Dept. She cannot withstand the rigors of a real campaign, so she has Biden, Bill, 0bama, and others out there doing most of the on-the-ground campaigning, and depends mostly on vast amounts of negative ads, and her media lapdogs to do the heavy lifting of actually campaigning for her.
ROFL
20/20 hindsight here, but there is a reply to every one of her tired old “zingers”
HRC: Donald inherited big money from his father
DJT: Hillary married a man with horrible sexual habits to get into power
If she can’t handle Donalf Trump, how is she going to handle being President of 300 million people... or other world leaders.
They make hilLIARy sound like one of these cupcake colleges students who are offended at everything and need a "Safe Space" to retreat to.
This is the kind of behavior we are teaching our college kids. ILLiary is their perfect role model for being offending by anything and everything.
Hillary is attempting to be a friendly caring woman.
She is over acting, trying to be cute.
Cute does not work on a frail 70 year old.
| Way to go, Michelle Malkin! Your article does indeed ROAR with analysis, irony, wit, and humor. It's gonna drive the Mother Jones crowd hysterical. Ha! |
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I remember reading women have a “need” to say ten thousand words a day whereas men find a day with one thousand exhausting. Hence, our job, as men, is to listen. The trick is finding a good one worth listening to. Even then, in my personal experience, it can be difficult to wedge a word in here and there. Sometimes one has to hold things on the back burner for days before an opportunity arises. I am sure my experience is not unique.
As far as finding one worth listening to, how we wish Bill had put more effort in this area decades ago.
Feminists, like Hillary, alternate between “I am women, hear me roar,” and the poor defenseless creatures, helpless in the face of attacks from male bullies and sexual harrassers, depending on what gains them the best advantage at the moment.
“Even then, in my personal experience, it can be difficult to wedge a word in here and there.”
True. I’m from northern NJ my significant other is from the Philly area. I talk fast, not intentionally, just habit. She is over the top with speed talking. She will ask me a question and before I can answer, she is already several sentences ahead of me on another topic, before I can answer. Go figure.
How else was Trump going to be able to make his point?
Has anyone tallied how many times Clinton interrupted Trump?
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