Hillary Clinton is back, and she is doing what she does best: trashing women. She wants us to understand that the basket of deplorables is also sexist.
During a conversation at the 92nd Street Y in New York City last month, Margaret Hoover, host of “Firing Line” on PBS, asked Clinton if she had any advice for the country’s eventual first female president.
Clinton used this opportunity to criticize Republican women. “Well, first of all, do not be a handmaiden to the patriarchy, which kind of eliminates every woman on the other side of the aisle, except for very few.”
According to her, most Republican women are “handmaidens to the patriarchy,” simply supporting the men. Will Hillary Clinton ever do such a thing?
Clinton first rose to prominence while her husband was governor of Arkansas and later president of the United States. She later became a senator from New York as a result of his influence. After losing the presidential nomination to Barack Obama, she was appointed Secretary of State, by a man.
While president, Bill Clinton had an affair with a White House intern and then lied about it under oath. He was impeached in the House of Representatives for perjury and obstructing justice.
During the time he was involved in this cover-up, his wife Hillary was out in the open, criticizing Republicans for daring to challenge her husband. She coined the phrase “vast rightwing conspiracy” to dismiss the charges against him.
Hillary later denied that Bill’s relationship with Monica was an abuse of power, claiming that Monica was “an adult,” despite the fact that he was the leader of the free world and she was a recent college graduate doing an internship.
This was not the first time Hillary Clinton snuggled up to the patriarchy. When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, he was dogged by allegations that he had a longtime affair with Gennifer Flowers.
Hillary Clinton, no girl’s girl, denied that her husband would do such a thing, stating, “You know, I am not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.” It was not enough to defend her husband. Hillary had to take a shot at women who had made the same decision she would eventually make: stand by her man. What could be more patriarchal than criticizing other women to defend a man?
Hillary Clinton’s husband was not the only man she would protect and defend in this way. According to a New York Times story published after Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a sexual predator, two well-known women warned Hillary Clinton’s team about her close relationship with Weinstein.
During Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, both actress Lena Dunham and magazine publisher Tina Brown issued explicit warnings about Weinstein to her team.
After the allegations against Weinstein were made public, Hillary’s team issued a statement criticizing Dunham for contacting them rather than going to authorities, stating, “Only she can answer why she would tell them instead of those who could stop him.”
Some female champions.
Hillary dislikes it when women refuse to do what they are told. In 2018, still bitter from Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2016 presidential election, Clinton claimed that women who did not vote for her were simply doing the bidding of the men in their lives.
“We do not do well with white men and we do not do well with married, white women,” Mrs. Clinton explained. “And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.” It could not be that women had considered her candidacy and found it lacking. According to her, men must have taught these women how to vote.
Hillary has always taken swipes at women, so her latest remarks are nothing new. The eventual female president should think about not using women as punching bags to achieve her goals. Fortunately, the president will not be Hillary Clinton.