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Hillary Clinton says 2020 female candidates unfairly have to avoid looking 'angry'
Politico ^ | 2/26/2019 | Katie Galioto

Posted on 02/28/2019 8:18:52 AM PST by simpson96

Hillary Clinton said in an interview this week that the female candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination are unjustly facing the challenge of not looking "aggressive" or "angry" — and must instead take a "Goldilocks path" of looking just right.

“How does a woman stand up for herself on the biggest stage in the world without, No. 1, looking aggressive — maybe a little bit angry — that somebody is behaving like that, being willing to go toe-to-toe, when there are so few memories embedded in our collective DNA where women do that?” Clinton said in an interview on the podcast “TBD with Tina Brown.”

As the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, Clinton and her supporters have argued she faced a double standard as the first female candidate from a major party seeking the nation’s highest office. Women, she said, often face scrutiny and criticism for perceived qualities or traits that would not be applied to men.

“How do you get on this kind of Goldilocks path where you're not too strong and you're not too weak, you're not too aggressive and you're not too passive?” the former secretary of State said to Brown in the interview. “This is still a problem for women on the public stage.”(snip)

In the interview, however, Clinton said she thinks the larger pool of women in the race for the White House makes the path “a little bit easier,” exposing the media and the public to a wider range of speaking styles and campaign approaches. She also thinks future female candidates will learn from her experience running for president.

“Sometimes,” she said in the interview, “the way you think you’re coming across can be filtered in a way that you don’t even imagine.”

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


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To: simpson96
LOOKING ANGRY

Yeah, that's the reason why she lost.

41 posted on 02/28/2019 8:53:29 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: simpson96

Go to jail...do not pass Go, you chronic liar and criminal puke. You deserve to be in prison, you worthless malignancy on civil society.


42 posted on 02/28/2019 8:54:04 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Sans-Culotte
Another “women can do everything a man can do, but please be extra nice to us” whine.

Yep.

IIRC, SC Justice Cavanaugh was savaged by Dems and the press for "appearing angry", after they attacked him and his entire family.

43 posted on 02/28/2019 8:57:11 AM PST by wbill
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To: simpson96

Bwahahahaha!

Still clueless after all these years.

And she’ll never be president.


44 posted on 02/28/2019 8:59:27 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: simpson96

Hear that Amy Klobuchar! You need to shave your own legs. Your ex-staff will sink you.


45 posted on 02/28/2019 9:01:21 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: simpson96

Hillary, you didn’t lose because you came across as angry. You lost primarily because people know they can’t trust you. Despite your attempts to create some type of palatable persona for yourself during the election, you’ve been around long enough for people to know who you truly are. Ironically, given your comments, the reality is that a great number of those who did vote for you voted on the basis of their hatred for others.


46 posted on 02/28/2019 9:04:35 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: simpson96

Waaaaa

Take a look at the names and depictions the Left has for Ms. Thatcher.


47 posted on 02/28/2019 9:05:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: rjsimmon

Uncle Leo?!!! - Seinfeld


48 posted on 02/28/2019 9:06:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: BBQToadRibs

They also need to avoid blurting out “I’m gonna take all of your stuffs and put them in a big pile for everyone!”


49 posted on 02/28/2019 9:07:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: relee

“How does a woman stand up for herself on the biggest stage in the world..”

The reason you lost, Hillary, combined with the reason you should NEVER be allowed near a power position, is entirely apparent in this statement of yours. It is NOT the biggest stage in the world, although that you think so is why it is so important to you. The ‘biggest stage in the world’ is one’s personal life, and the role you play on that stage - either giving love and spreading happiness to others, OR spreading discord and misery, is what defines you.

You’re a pathetic narcissist, Hillary. Nothing more. You could have been more, but you made choices based entirely on your ego. That’s why you are pathetic. Truly.


50 posted on 02/28/2019 9:14:11 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: simpson96

Just trying to recall, hasn’t Hillary required intensive training on how to smile and not come across as having an innate, nasty and evil countenance or some-such?


51 posted on 02/28/2019 9:18:11 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: rjsimmon
Huh???

Heh. AO-C has quite the Resting Bitch Face.

52 posted on 02/28/2019 9:18:37 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: simpson96
I never once saw this gracious lady looking angry on a national stage.

Image result for sarah palin

 

Not once.

53 posted on 02/28/2019 9:30:22 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: simpson96
I agree with Hillary on this one. Furthermore I think it's unfair that they have to avoid looking scary.

It's who they are, right? /sarc

54 posted on 02/28/2019 9:31:34 AM PST by Salman (Democrats. The other religion of peace.)
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To: simpson96
Avoid looking angry?

Good. That permanently leaves this thing out.

Image result for angry michelle obama

 

55 posted on 02/28/2019 9:33:25 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: blueunicorn6

...onto the bus, Gus!


56 posted on 02/28/2019 9:34:48 AM PST by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: simpson96

I ain’t no way mad!


57 posted on 02/28/2019 9:35:24 AM PST by blam
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To: OrangeHoof

Holy smokes. Wikipedia is so cowed it resorted to a portrait of the Sun King as an, er, THE example?


58 posted on 02/28/2019 9:36:40 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: simpson96

59 posted on 02/28/2019 9:46:22 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Seaplaner

60 posted on 02/28/2019 9:46:57 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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