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[aimantselden]

Even though I'm happy Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses, I can't help feeling really frustrated and sad still about the way people have talked about Hillary Clinton. My grandma was telling me that on CNN, every time she did something, it was portrayed negatively. I've heard people who are generally politically aware call her a "shrew"; people say

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[sporadicfungian]

yeah, whenever i hear people complaining about clinton i think of a katha pollitt column where she was like, "if people keep using sexism to put down hillary clinton i might just have to vote for her."

i actually have mixed feelings about the warho thing... normally i'd agree totally, but my gut reaction for this specific joke was that it was a double pun, not just calling her a whore but really saying "war ho," like, a ho for war, the way people say attention whore meaning someone who'll do anything for attention, implying she'll do anything for war, as a member after all of the bush administration. so i think i still come down as being against it, but for slightly different reasons? i don't know, sometimes feminism is hard. do you ever feel like that? like you really honestly don't know what you think of something and you kind of just want to give up and go with the easy answer, because it can be tiring to always try to be the person you want to be. or something like that. but you keep trying (mostly) anyway because i mean really, there aren't a lot of things more important than trying to be the person you want to be. does that ever happen to you or am i just nuts.

[aimantselden]

Yeah, I dunno, the people I'm close friends with are generally pretty supportive, and those that aren't, or don't agree, I usually try to avoid the topic with them or else I just get really mad. I do watch a lot of TV. I love TV, but like, stuff on TV is so fucked up! even on like Project Runway! and I listen to music on the radio. That stuff is pretty fucked up too. Yeah, and okay, I could stop watching TV or listening to the radio, but I definitely don't want to even though I get mad at it sometimes. Or I could write letters about every fucked up thing I see, but that's too much work.