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Melania and Ivanka's plastic feminism cover up Trump's misogyny (Docile and Compliant Women!)
CNN ^ | 2-23-2017 | Jill Filipovic

Posted on 02/26/2017 4:36:06 PM PST by tcrlaf

In his press conference last week, in which President Trump ranted and raved that he wasn't ranting and raving, he answered a question about his wife, Melania. "That's what I call a very nice question," he said, apparently relieved to stop talking about his own policies, before saying the first lady feels very strongly about "women's issues" and "women's difficulties."

Trump didn't specify what these "issues" and "difficulties" might be. One presumes that, despite the phrasing, he probably meant things like equal pay and health care, and not what old men usually mean when they cryptically speak about our "difficulties."

He then swiftly regressed into thin-skinned indignation, complaining that despite the first lady's strength as an advocate for women, "she gets so unfairly maligned."

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Melania and Ivanka provide good cover for Trump's misogyny because they're palatable, conventionally feminine women: They're docile and poised, they don't make demands of men, and they are above all conventionally beautiful -- white and thin.

Now, Trump is using his wife and daughter's status as American women to feign concern for women while he actively makes life worse for women around the world. And Melania and Ivanka sit passively by.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakenews; fakestreammedia; hate; ivanka; jakenews; jealousy; melania; milania; pedoalliance; trump
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To: Lazamataz
Marry me.

Believe it or not, you have asked me that before, on Facebook. But I ditched that globalist Big Brother cesspool a few years ago. :)

101 posted on 02/28/2017 7:53:59 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Refreshing? Trump makes me feel like I just freebased a York Peppermint Pattie!)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

So okay, I’m good with living in sin. :)


102 posted on 02/28/2017 8:07:19 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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