Also see: When Feminists Cry
"Clinton's female base torn over loss; Weighs impact of candidacy on the future" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | June 7, 2008
WASHINGTON - .... Legions of Clinton's female supporters, especially older women who lived through the struggles of the second wave of feminism in the '60s and '70s, are expected to show up today at Clinton's concession speech at noon in Washington. And many are not prepared to concede her loss, presenting Obama with an added challenge of winning over ardent female Clinton backers he will probably need to capture the presidency.
Hundreds of women have logged onto Clinton's campaign website, with many insisting they will not vote for "that man" - Obama - and urging Clinton to run as an independent or challenge Obama's nomination at the August convention in Denver. Many on the website pledged to vote for Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive GOP nominee.
Go ahead! Think I care about you and your attitudes anymore?
Bitch, bitch, bitch!!
Other websites have sprung up to denounce Democrats for picking Obama. One - called PUMA, an acronym for the sentiment "Party Unity My Ass" - features postings by Clinton supporters saying they will never vote for Obama, even if it means electing McCain.
But the world would be SO MUCH BETTER if WOMEN WERE RUNNING IT!!!
Pffffftttt!
I hear that all the time, and it is 100% PURE BULLSHIT!!!!
Yeah, Maggie Thatcher was great for England!!!
Now I NEVER want a woman president -- not if THESE are her SUPPORTERS!!!!
And I thought I had anger.
I can't hold a candle to these vipers; they could light up New York City for months.
Hey, ENERGY CRISIS SOLVED!!!!
Yet leaders of longtime women's organizations, while disappointed at Clinton's loss, are urging female followers to recognize the historic advances Clinton made for women, and to rally around the Democratic nominee. A vote for McCain, they warn, would lead to a Supreme Court that would overturn the victories veteran feminists secured in the '60s and the '70s, including the right to an abortion....
Oh, you AREN'T JUST SAYING THAT to make my heart all flutter, are you?!?!
See Pumping Out Children for my position on abortion.
Clinton many times... used gender to her advantage during the campaign, exhorting voters to "make history" by electing a woman, and several times cheekily referring to herself as a "girl." Regarding her opponent, Clinton repeated Harry S. Truman's motto, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," adding that "I'm very comfortable in the kitchen" - a comment that underscored both her femaleness and her toughness.
And here they are COMPLAINING ABOUT SEXISM!!
Can't have it BOTH WAYS, hypocrites!!!!!!
But Clinton was also the target of brazenly sexist comments, her supporters said. "I cross my legs every time she talks," commentator Tucker Carlson said on MSNBC, a remark that is among the most reviled by feminists because of the suggestion Clinton is emasculating.
I'm kind of feeling a little that way myself, what with her vicious and rabid supporters here.
Look, I was only against her because of the mass-murders...
First WTC attack, Oklahoma City (about 16 minutes in, run time 30 mins), Waco
... but the campaign they have waged has brought out the bile!!!!
Anonymous Internet postings about Clinton include descriptions not printable in this newspaper.
Not MOI?!?!?!
;-)
The New York senator was right to be appalled, women's advocates agree.
And SO ARE WE!!!!
But Clinton's response - to repeatedly accuse the media of undermining her candidacy with sexism - may not have helped her and may have turned off younger women who cringe at the notion that women are victims, some activists said.
That's because NO ONE likes a WHINER!!!!!
"One of the aspects of the campaign that has been really shocking to me is how outrageous the sexism was toward her in the media," said Faye Waddleton, president of the New York-based Center for the Advancement of Women....
Waddleton used to be the director of Planned Parenthood, so she is one of that AGENDA-PUSHING CROWD, folks.
'nuff said.
Clinton's scolding about sexism also does not resonate as much among younger women, who have not endured the sort of gender bias and discrimination women of Clinton's age suffered when they were beginning their careers, said Burk, of the national council. Since many of these woman are just out of college - "the last meritocracy," and a place where females now outnumber males - they don't react with the same anger as women who themselves have experienced decades of such slights, Burk said.
Yeah, thank God the younger girls are better than the ones my age.
And maybe the slights were never there?
How Feminists Destroyed the American Family
"I don't relate to being a victim at all, and never feel like sexism is holding me down," said Jennifer Baumgardner, a feminist writer in her 30s whose book, "Abortion and Life," will be published in the fall....
Oh, I wonder what she is writing about in her book!!!!!!
Paper doesn't tell you.
One stark lesson from Clinton's campaign is that despite the gender politics of the race, women alone could not get her the nomination. While women make up the overwhelming majority of the Democratic electorate - 60 percent in some states - Clinton still lost to Obama, who won over many black women and young women...."
So WHA' HAPPENED, Hitlery?!?
Just TOO MEAN and BITCHY?
