I guess you heard. Hillary Clinton had the audacity to mention that politics is still a male sport and that she is, um, a woman. Shocking, I know.
From Tucker Carlson to Chris Matthews to Matt Lauer's interview of Barack Obama, the male-dominated media's gone bonkers with 24/7 frenzied rants all about how Hillary went and played 'the gender card.'
Here's Hillary's shockingly 'polarizing' 'gender card' statement: "[I]n so many ways, this all-women’s college prepared me to compete in the all-boys’ club of presidential politics."
Exactly what about that statement is untrue? Moreover, it was a very appropriate statement given that Hillary was speaking at Wellesley College, her alma mater, which just happens to be a women's university where everyone already knows the truth of her statement. Wellesley College has never had a male president. Wellesley College has a feminist mission. Gasp!
Chris Matthews played a video clip of a thousand Wellesley women passionately cheering Hillary's scary 'gender card' statement. Poor Chris Matthews has never seen so many feminists in his life! I didn't think he was going to make it through the show:
"Is this pandering or playing to the Seven Sisters crowd up at these all-women's colleges, where there may be that sort of mood if you're -- and they all want dates. I assume a lot of them do, on weekends. But this anti-male thing, is that something that's particularly something you can sort of spruce up, you can play up, up there?"
Anti-male? Dates? Matthews greatly prefers the 'hot babe' card.
Wellesley women were wearing shirts that read: "I can be president, too."
Hillary Clinton is the only reason that women have to believe such a remarkable statement.
The last time the terms 'gender' and 'women' were heard this much in presidential politics was when Geraldine Ferraro ran for Vice President in 1984. Then, as now, many men, not all, fell into wild spasmodic fits on account of 'the gender card.' After all these years, we finally get one more female candidate. Whoopee!
If Hillary loses, I suppose we'll just have to wait another 23 years. But let's not mention it, okay? Else we'll be "anti-male." And we'll never get a date!
Every presidential race in this nation's male-dominated history has played the gender card. The founding fathers played the gender card. The U.S. Constitution plays the gender card. After all these years we can't even get equality written into that hallowed male-authored document.
And Hillary Clinton is playing the gender card? Give me a break. What they mean to say is: A woman has a chance of becoming the president of this cowboy country! Somebody stop her!
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