Hillary Clinton Blames Sexism For Recent Fall In The Polls

[TheStruggle]

Hillary Clinton: People say, ‘I really like you, I just don’t know if I can vote for a woman’



The former secretary of state and Democratic frontrunner says she still encounters sexism on the campaign trail — even on the rope line.

Hillary Clinton says while sexism on the campaign trail is not as severe as it was in 2008 when she first ran for president, it still lingers — even in her encounters with would-be supporters.

In a New York magazine cover profile published this week, Clinton said she encounters people on rope lines who tell her, “I really admire you, I really like you, I just don’t know if I can vote for a woman to be president.”

“I mean, they come to my events and then they say that to me,” Clinton told the magazine’s Rebecca Traister. “Unpacking this, understanding it, is for writers like you. I’m just trying to cope with it. Deal with it. Live through it.”



https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clinton-sexism-woman-card-000000411.html

 

[oldshadow]

So she is making excuses already.

Like any democrat would vote for Trump because she is female.

 

[KILL KILL]

I understand it's your schtick, TS, but she is recounting interactions with people. She didn't once say sexism was to blame for her poll numbers. Not once. She did say that she is looked at differently for being a female candidate, which is true.

I don't even like Hillary, but people like you that start threads with an obvious bias force me to defend her and I hate it.

 

[Factory]

This is ridiculous. The pussy card is pretty much her only asset.

Everybody knows that...

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

In a New York magazine cover profile published this week, Clinton said she encounters people on rope lines who tell her, “I really admire you, I really like you, I just don’t know if I can vote for a woman to be president.”

Sounds legit.

 

[IDL]

Hillary Clinton embodies the struggle

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

Is it really that hard to believe?

We have had posters on this very sub-forum say they wouldn't vote for a woman and I have encountered plenty of these guys in my life. So it isn't that crazy to think that MAYBE just MAYBE sexism may be playing some role. Especially, when we consider how dominant male society is and how women are regarded as subservient in the entertainment industry or all walks of life. Thus is it really any surprise that many men have an aversion towards voting or supporting a female in high positions of power?

Now watch all the guys who call her a "c#nt", a "b#tch", and who make fun of the way she dresses or her voice claim they are not being sexist. It would be like a southern white guy using the N-Word against Obama and CLAIMING that "it isn't racist" cause I don't mean it towards all black people.

I mean the specific language so often used to bash Hillary, and I mean some of the most vile and disgusting is and does relate to words often used to disparage a female.

 

[Factory]

Hillary Clinton: People say, ‘I really like you, I just don’t know if I can vote for a woman’

 

[Devout Pessimist]

The magazine should publish the truth. People actually say: "I really hate you. I just don't know if I can vote for a demon bitch from hell."

 

[hiphopnazi]

Is it really that hard to believe?

We have had posters on this very sub-forum say they wouldn't vote for a woman and I have encountered plenty of these guys in my life. So it isn't that crazy to think that MAYBE just MAYBE sexism may be playing some role. Especially, when we consider how dominant male society is and how women are regarded as subservient in the entertainment industry or all walks of life. Thus is it really any surprise that many men have an aversion towards voting or supporting a female in high positions of power?

Now watch all the guys who call her a "c#nt", a "b#tch", and who make fun of the way she dresses or her voice claim they are not being sexist. It would be like a southern white guy using the N-Word against Obama and CLAIMING that "it isn't racist" cause I don't mean it towards all black people.

I mean the specific language so often used to bash Hillary, and I mean some of the most vile and disgusting is and does relate to words often used to disparage a female.

I'm sure females are voting for her because she is simply a female as well. Goes both ways.

 

[xcvbn]

Why even legitimize that type of backwards thinking? Why can't she brush it off like she brushes off legitimate questions regarding her record?

The bitch literally will say anything to get elected. That gaylord Andy Cooper was right. Jesus fucking Christ

 

[Mr Holmes]

Straight out of the liberal playbook.

 

[Cmart]

On the contrary, I've spoken to liberals and independents who've said they'd like to vote for a woman, just not Hillary Clinton.

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

I'm sure females are voting for her because she is simply a female as well. Goes both ways.

I doubt that. And it would be a hard case to make given the fact that many young women were all about Bernie and the fact that conservative women aren't lining up behind Clinton.

If +90% of the female demographic was voting for Hillary THEN you could make the argument that her being a woman is a deciding factor for many of them. However, so far that is not the case. Hillary's female fans are loyal if anything especially those who stood up for Hillary on ultra liberal college campuses amid-st hordes of Bernie radicals.

On the contrary, I've spoken to liberals and independents who've said they'd like to vote for a woman, just not Hillary Clinton.

Yeah just like "any black but Obama" stuff.

Let's not ignore the fact that SOME people who say that statement are in-fact lying. Because, they know that they have to wait until the next election for there to even be the 'alternative' hypothetical candidate they claim they'd vote for. It's like all the people saying that they'd vote for Elizabeth Warren but Not Hillary as the 1st woman president. Well what happens if Elizabeth Warren comes out in support of Hillary and pushes her fans to vote Hillary? What happens when these supposed Warren fans then reject her plea and instead vote for some man over Hillary?

On one hand you have people claiming that "oh the next black, or woman etc" I may vote for but not the current one. Well one the next one arrives SOME of these folk will say the same thing again and again.

 

[Skip Reming]

hmmmm...women are the majority and many men now piss sitting down so don't really believe her

 

[Madmick]

Sounds like Trump. What was it Bill Maher was censuring Trump for? How he always rabble-rouses by alluding to shitty mainstream & hardcore conservative CT's with the preface, "People tell me..." or "I'm hearing..."

Literally no different at all. Slop for the feeble-minded.

 

[My Spot]

I understand it's your schtick, TS, but she is recounting interactions with people. She didn't once say sexism was to blame for her poll numbers. Not once. She did say that she is looked at differently for being a female candidate, which is true.

I don't even like Hillary, but people like you that start threads with an obvious bias force me to defend her and I hate it.

We don't know if these interactions actually happened and she has quite the track record of embellishing.

 

[Yunes]

Is it really that hard to believe?

We have had posters on this very sub-forum say they wouldn't vote for a woman and I have encountered plenty of these guys in my life. So it isn't that crazy to think that MAYBE just MAYBE sexism may be playing some role. Especially, when we consider how dominant male society is and how women are regarded as subservient in the entertainment industry or all walks of life. Thus is it really any surprise that many men have an aversion towards voting or supporting a female in high positions of power?

Now watch all the guys who call her a "c#nt", a "b#tch", and who make fun of the way she dresses or her voice claim they are not being sexist. It would be like a southern white guy using the N-Word against Obama and CLAIMING that "it isn't racist" cause I don't mean it towards all black people.

I mean the specific language so often used to bash Hillary, and I mean some of the most vile and disgusting is and does relate to words often used to disparage a female.

I won't vote for her because her foreign policy is shit and she's either inept or a fucking liar and neither of those things are something I want in a president.

 

[TheGreatA]

Claiming victimhood is the way of the world nowadays. Everybody's doing it. Men, women, blacks, whites, Asians, Muslims, Christians, atheists. The privileged and the unprivileged, they all claim to be victims of another mean, bullying group of people.

There is no group in the world that has not stained themselves and their cause with excessive martyrdom.

I much prefer playing the bully, the "villain" in today's environment, because it is a more honest, straight-forward way of doing things. It seems that people eventually warm up to it anyway, because they've had enough of people exploiting them emotionally.

I suppose people have entirely forgotten the concepts of grit, willpower and determination. I could not admit to being a victim even if I were, because it would lower me down to a position of weakness and pity, and force myself to acknowledge that it is others who hold power over me. No human being should do such a thing, as far as I'm concerned. It's a sickening, sorry way to live, yet it seems to be the way to live nowadays.

 

[KILL KILL]

We don't know if these interactions actually happened and she has quite the track record of embellishing.

So do the other candidates lol. TS simply took her quotes and is pretending as if she was making excuses. She wasn't. She was talking about how she has been treated differently, which isn't top far fetched.