Hillary Clinton’s Celebrity Feminism Was a Failure

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2016-11-11 03:04

Article here. Excerpt:

'Clinton’s campaign strategy, especially when it came to appealing to white women, indicates that she and her staffers didn’t quite grasp these dynamics. Her campaign employed a candy-colored brand of female empowerment seemingly based on the assumption that white women’s political priorities are influenced by the pop culture they consume. White working-class women weren’t going to vote for Clinton just because Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, and Sheryl Sandberg were.

These celebrity overtures were out of step with the priorities and concerns of white working-class women. How can you “lean in,” as Sandberg implores working women to do, when it’ll cost you your minimum-wage job? And if you can’t afford HBO, how likely is it you even know who Lena Dunham is, much less care about her political opinions?

Yet Clinton’s campaign relied heavily on these endorsement gimmicks. It saturated its messaging with the same superficial celebrity feminism that anoints everyone from Taylor Swift to Madeline Albright as role models for would-be girl bosses. It assumed that this branding, and Clinton’s bid to make history, would be enough to attract the white women she needed to win. Not only did this tactic fail in that regard, but it alienated some queer women, women of color, and even millennials.'

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I am soooo glad we are now rid of this doddering old woman/feminist harpy and her rapist husband. I will not miss seeing her ***-ugly face and hearing her shrill, screaming-at-you voice or the ridiculous lies coming from her mouth all the time.

Now that all their "investments" (pay-offs) have gone to naught, the vultures seeking recompense have undoubtedly already started moving in to extract whatever they can back from the Clintons. But if I know their kind, they have prior to election night spirited much of the many millions they have taken in bribes for favors done and favors to be done away to secret foreign accounts. But at least if Trump keeps his promise, maybe we will finally see one or both of them led away in handcuffs. We are certainly bound to see a number of their minions get perp-walked, as I am sure those who chose to commit any number of felonies for them will without their patronage get nabbed. Oh, it's gonna be *beautiful*.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2016-11-11 04:00

I'm very happy that man-hater Clinton will never be able to get her jollies by sending only young men to die in a completely unnecessary war with Russia.

It's hilarious how every debate, she would bring up gender and act like calling a woman a name is so horrible, when she herself is guilty not only of viewing males as cannon fodder, but also of being a male genital mutilation enthusiast (promoting forced MGM of minors under the pretense that it prevents AIDs, even going so far as calling it a "feminist issue", while being staunchly against FGM).

I'm proud of the American people for saying no to any more of this harpy's BS. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain

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Submitted by xtrnl on Fri, 2016-11-11 10:38

Oh the Horror!

http://nypost.com/2016/11/10/chelsea-clinton-being-groomed-to-run-for-congress/

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Submitted by fathers4fairness on Fri, 2016-11-11 17:17

No more Clintons in public office!

Time for Chelsea and Hillary to bake cookies.

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Submitted by el cid on Sat, 2016-11-12 15:08

https://youtu.be/GLG9g7BcjKs

Sums it up nicely. NSFW w/out headphones.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2016-11-12 07:25

Sam Harris: https://youtu.be/f27qaDQ1uG8

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-11-13 15:58