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Camille Paglia: Hillary’s “blame-men-first” feminism may prove costly in 2016
Salon ^ | 1/27/2016 | Camille Paglia

Posted on 01/27/2016 5:45:16 AM PST by LittleSpotBlog

During her two presidential campaigns, Hillary Clinton has consistently drawn greater support from women than men. Is this gender lag due to retrograde misogyny, or does Hillary project an uneasiness or ambivalence about men that complicates her appeal to a broader electorate?

As a career woman, Hillary is rooted in second-wave feminism, which began with Betty Friedan’s co-founding of the National Organization for Women in 1967, while Hillary was in college. Friedan sought to draw men into the women’s movement and to ally with mainstream wives and mothers. But after a series of ideological struggles, she lost her leadership role and was eventually eclipsed in media attention by the more telegenic Gloria Steinem, who famously said, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; clinton; hillary; paglia
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To: Nevadan

So Hillary is some little Crystal Gayle making her brown eyes blue.


21 posted on 01/27/2016 5:31:18 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
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To: Oztrich Boy
More like a Rachel Dozeal who makes her blue eyes brown because she is a manipulator.
22 posted on 01/27/2016 10:23:28 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan
Actually I was ref. Hillary denying she was another country singer back in the 90s'
"I'm not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette."
Oh yes you are!
23 posted on 01/27/2016 11:04:19 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
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To: HarleyLady27
She's gay, maybe if she would have sex with her husband he could have stayed home

But that forbidden Muslim fruit is so hard to resist...neither is Weiner enough to satisfy Huma.


24 posted on 01/27/2016 11:18:28 PM PST by JediJones ("Beautiful, famous, successful, married - I've had them all, secretly." -Trump on women in 2007 book)
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