Melania and Ivanka's plastic feminism cover up Trump's misogyny (Docile and Compliant Women!)

CNN ^ | 2-23-2017 | Jill Filipovic

[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."

(SNIP)

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.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Radical feminist

Wiki entry shows one effed up woman. Yet #cnnFakeNews gives a slot to this slut. No wonder it has to make stuff up.

[browniexyz]

The liberals REALLY hate women who are lovely and feminine.

[TADSLOS]

Melania is not a #nasty woman, ergo she is deeply flawed- so say the lefty hags.

[PROCON]

Any questions?

[Biggirl]

Maybe OAN could get picked up by more cable providers.

[goodnesswins]

Hope all men interested in a female companion are taking note of all these crazy women...sheesh.

[jazusamo]

More Clinton News Network really fake news.

[Vaduz]

None here real class always stands out that she is.

[Salvation]

Hit piece from CNN.

[FlingWingFlyer]

CNN? ROTFL.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

These people are absolutely insane!

I guess they miss Moochie's hairy old armpits trashy antics and goofy wardrobe that grossed the world out for 8 miserable years.

There's no plastic here - just hairy pits, sweat, poor manners, poor taste and a blubber gut.

[DAC21]

So do Jill and her Stalinist friends draw straws whom kills their career next with their beyond stupid rantings?

[Arthur McGowan]

The headline is in Obama style—the subject and verb don’t agree in number.

[BenLurkin]

But.....but....”he actively makes life worse for women around the world.”

Somehow.

[ssaftler]

cnn.com ...

This should be in the headline. The article is nothing but useless click-bait, IMHO.

[fruser1]

What do they think of Jackie O?

[onyx]

Such jealousy.

CNN sux.

It is part of the enemy within.

[NorthMountain]

In his press conference last week, in which President Trump ranted and raved that he wasn't ranting and raving,

What the hell?

THIS is why CNN is considered "VERY Fake News".

[Bellflower]

Plastic means anyone that isn’t as loose as a goose morally, dirty, smelly and loud.

[NorthMountain]

Even that old whore Walter Cronkite would be embarrassed by this.

Maybe ... but that wretched, dishonest, communist bastard set the stage for it.