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Why Liberal Women Dislike Hillary Clinton
CBS ^ | 12.07.07 | Keach Hagey

Posted on 12/07/2007 8:16:21 AM PST by rface

Jane Fonda summed up this view best in which she called Clinton "a ventriloquist for the patriarchy with a skirt and a vagina." (It would be such a great quote, except when was the last time Hillary wore a skirt?).......

They are like her, but they don't like her.

Such is the curious phenomenon of many educated, professional, liberal women of a certain age when it comes to Hillary Clinton, the Los Angeles Times reports. In fact, upper-middle-class women on the left are "historically her toughest crowd," the paper reports.

Why is this? The Times offers a handful of possibilities:

1) They're not as worried about job security as their more blue-collar peers (who are more pro-Clinton), so they feel free to judge the New York Senator as a peer.

2) They're disgusted by the fact that, while they struggled to break through barriers in the workplace, Clinton hitched her star to her man and followed him to the top.

3) They're disappointed by her support of the Iraq war and the fact that she has recreated herself as a centrist.

4) Women hold each other to an unrealistic standard.

5) She's trying to act too much like a man.

"What you may be hearing is the commitment to pacifism that some women associate with feminism," said Wendy Kaminer, a 57-year-old author and lawyer. "It's what I think of as the 'feminine' strain of feminism that sees women as bringing something to the table because they are not militaristic, work by consensus and don't play the boys' game. And Hillary is someone who has played the boys' game exceedingly well."

Jane Fonda perhaps summed up this view best in an interview with the LA Weekly last May, in which she called Clinton "a ventriloquist for the patriarchy with a skirt and a vagina." (It would be such a great quote, except when was the last time Hillary wore a skirt?)

The Times says Clinton has been working to overcome this skepticism from her sisters by appearing on "The View" and telling a Chicago audience that "I'm your girl."

Why this should endear her to feminist peers, I'm not quite sure, but something seems to be working. Support for Clinton among college-educated women jumped from 29 percent in June to 50 percent in October, according to the latest LA Times/Bloomberg poll.


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Question: Why Do Liberal Women Dislike Hillary Clinton?

answer: Queen Bee Syndrome

1 posted on 12/07/2007 8:16:23 AM PST by rface
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To: rface
...when was the last time Hillary wore a skirt?

1993 or 94?

2 posted on 12/07/2007 8:19:24 AM PST by jdm
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To: rface

Because she’s unlikeable?


3 posted on 12/07/2007 8:21:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: rface

Doesn’t matter if they like her or not, they’ll still vote for her in the general.


4 posted on 12/07/2007 8:22:00 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: rface
Off the topic but...Jane Fonda is a repulsive ignoramus with an ego the size of the universe. What a loser.
5 posted on 12/07/2007 8:22:37 AM PST by Vision (" 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord Almighty." Zechariah 4:6)
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To: rface
Here's another, just before lunch (sorry):


6 posted on 12/07/2007 8:22:38 AM PST by jdm
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To: rface

7 posted on 12/07/2007 8:22:48 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: rface
They are like her, but they don't like her.

Which explains why feminists are always so grouchy/bitchy/miserable........they are what they dislike.

8 posted on 12/07/2007 8:25:13 AM PST by Lizavetta ( Politicians: When they're speaking, they're lying - when they're not speaking, they're stealing.)
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Is that photo touched up/changed...or is she that unfortunate to have legs like that?


9 posted on 12/07/2007 8:25:44 AM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: rface

“Queen Bee Syndrome”

Yup.

Women hate each other. I see it all the time at work and at clubs. They can be nice but they can also be catty b!tches.


10 posted on 12/07/2007 8:26:03 AM PST by live+let_live
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To: rface

Its telling the Times doesn’t mention the real reason feminist don’t like Hillary Clinton. Even Rosie O’donell ‘gets it’.

They can’t believe she didn’t divorce the man that made her a laughingstock worldwide, repeatedly.

Thats whats at the heart of feminist anger with St Hillary.


11 posted on 12/07/2007 8:27:32 AM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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***Such is the curious phenomenon of many educated***

Educated means different things.


12 posted on 12/07/2007 8:28:27 AM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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shhooopa, shhooopa, shhooopa...

The sound of her gate coming down the hall.


13 posted on 12/07/2007 8:28:39 AM PST by poobear (Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
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To: jdm

14 posted on 12/07/2007 8:29:41 AM PST by rface (kooky inside and out)
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To: Vision

“And Hillary is someone who has played the boys’ game exceedingly well.”

That must mean Huma plays the girls part.


15 posted on 12/07/2007 8:31:23 AM PST by dblshot
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"shhooopa, shhooopa, shhooopa... The sound of her gate coming down the hall."

We had a lady in the office like that, except she took these quick little bitty steps.

One time one of the guys said that Frieda was going to start a fire if she didn't slow down some.

LOL!

16 posted on 12/07/2007 8:32:00 AM PST by GourmetDan ("All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.")
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;D!

That’s some high friction baby!!

Slow down Frieda!

~you owe me a keyboard~


17 posted on 12/07/2007 8:35:01 AM PST by poobear (Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
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To: rface
answer: Queen Bee Syndrome


18 posted on 12/07/2007 8:36:17 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: rface

They don’t like looking at themself...


19 posted on 12/07/2007 8:38:48 AM PST by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: Badeye
They can’t believe she didn’t divorce the man that made her a laughingstock worldwide, repeatedly.

Good call, they can't figure out why she hasn't dumped Bill. Hill has a huge problem named Bill. She needs him to stump for her to the group that still love him, while trying to distance herself from him with those that loath him.

20 posted on 12/07/2007 8:40:55 AM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S.)
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