The Myth of Hillary Clinton and the Angry White Women
Once we stop viewing the Democratic contest through the identity-politics lens, former Clinton-supporters favoring McCain over Obama isn't all that surprising.
Once we stop viewing the Democratic contest through the identity-politics lens, former Clinton-supporters favoring McCain over Obama isn't all that surprising.
Peter Clothier | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Clinton can't blame the media, sexism, or others for the failure. She started out an easy frontrunner, with the full weight of the party machinery behind her. It was hers to lose, and she lost it.
Ilana Goldman | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Dear Hillary - I say this to you almost daily, but since it's normally to you on the TV screen, I thought I should find a way of saying it where you...
Eric Deggans | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media
It remains an enduring legacy of the conservative media machine -- and their own past mistakes -- that a couple so admired by the public has such awful relations with the Fourth Estate.
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 06.03.2008 | Entertainment
Something big is happening and SATC didn't cause it, it just reflects it. Whether or not you are a Hillary fan, there is a gender conversation happening in this country, and women are angry.
Matt Stoller | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
These videos are really quite stunning. Rep. Dave Reichert's jokes about Hillary Clinton dying are just the latest in a career of using sexist slurs and innuendo to deny women full equality.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
Many women who are avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are declaring they won't vote for Obama in the fall. I get the anger and the disappointment. But to quote SNL's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers: Really?
Eric Deggans | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
I have regularly criticized Clinton over the course of her campaign, but there is no question that she has forever altered the way women running for president will be viewed.
Rob Kall | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Frankly, it's hard to believe that Hillary has lost the edge in the female vote, but checking the progression over the past few days seems to bear this out. Of course, Zogby's polling sample may be off.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
While we're busy wondering who likes guns more, and who has the most problematic pastor, we ought to put some thought into this.
Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media
Clinton's run for the Democratic nomination has been awash with the most dispiriting ridicule I have seen in my (albeit short) lifetime.
Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
If feminists want Clinton to be seen as anything other than a token we need to recognize her merits, analyze her campaign's faults, and move on, as if a woman losing were the most normal thing in the world.
Marie Wilson | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
While men seem to be incorporating the best of what women already know and do, women themselves are still feeling the pressure to deny traits associated with their gender to get ahead.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
Why not a woman for president? How long must we wait? Who will be good enough? Does such a woman exist?
Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton is possessed by the spirit of Joan Crawford. Like that notorious über-bitch immortalized by Faye Dunaway in the camp clas...
Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.
Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
The pundits would like to see (and, sadly, are now seeing) women tearing each other apart, in this election season, within variously productive and destructive discourses of identity politics.
Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
The suggestion that women are monolithic and asleep and need to "wake up" is part of the problem endemic to Second Wave Feminism.
Marie Wilson | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Centuries have passed, but Abigail Adams' plea -- "Remember the ladies" -- resonates today, when women continue to struggle to ascend to the positions of leadership they deserve.
Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
Women leaders in the third world have often succeeded in gaining support because their leadership emerged not only out of local women's movements, but in the context of broader political struggles.
Bob Franken | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
Now that we've heard Obama's speech on racial antagonism in America, it's time for the address from Hillary on the division that is even deeper in our country -- the divide over gender.
Lynda Obst | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Hillary, as strong as she is, wins as a victim. That is the trajectory of her career: I am a victim. Punch. So why are women whining and identifying with being the victim again?
Eric Deggans | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
This is the way Dems will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in this election: allowing dunderheads like Ferraro to drive wedges between a coalition poised to unseat the Republicans in November.
Paula Gordon | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
Clinton's gender neither gives her a pass nor does it distract me, any more than it excuses the ugliness Ann Coulter and other wrong-wing women smear across the nation.
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Lester Feder | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics