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TIME Op-Ed: Criticism of Hillary Clinton’s Email Is ‘An Attack on Women’
Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-10-31 21:24
Article here. Excerpt:
'According to an op-ed published by TIME Magazine Monday, attacking Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton‘s handling of her private email server is an attack on womankind itself.
“I am mad,” writes Robin Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley. “I am mad because I am scared. And if you are a woman, you should be, too. Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us.”
“The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female,” Lakoff continues. “Can you imagine this happening to a man? Clinton is guilty of SWF (Speaking While Female), and emailgate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she’s doing and must be punished, for the sake of all decent women everywhere.”'
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Equal treatment is unfair
The modern American woman is so accustomed to special treatment that equal treatment appears unfair.
How does she get special treatment? By claiming to be oppressed, so any attempt to hold her accountable for her behavior is treated as a form of oppression.
Men, on the other hand, are the oppressors, so holding them accountable is fair.
The end result, of course, is that women get away with a lot more stuff than men, which is why Hillary gets away with a lot of stuff--as did Loretta Lynch for meeting with Bill Clinton.