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Monday, May 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton's faux feminism
If it seems hard to find anything Hillary Clinton's done that borders on feminism it's because she -- and her zombie followers -- define anything she does for herself as "feminism."
The crypto conservative is wedded to gender roles though she likes to pretend otherwise.
Take her latest insult to women.
Abby Phillip's "Bill Clinton won't serve in Hillary Clinton's cabinet, but here's the job she wants him to have" (WASHINGTON POST) makes clear how little respect she has for the roles so many women have to play.
Hillary wants to be the President of the United States.
Usually when someone wants to be that, it's understood that their spouse would fulfill the First spouse role.
But that's when it's a woman.
And Hillary won't stand for that when it comes to a man.
No, heaven forbid Bill Clinton have the same duties that Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Betty Ford, Dolley Madison, Michelle Obama, Caroline Harrison and so many other women have performed.
See a man, in Hillary's mind, can't handle these roles.
Yet again, she's creating a male exception.
The same way she did on her husband's cheating and Brett McGurk's cheating and Anthony Weiner's cheating and . . .
With Hillary, there are always strict rules for women . . . and one exception after another for men.