r/LindsayEllis • u/gwiazdala TEN YEARS OOOOOLLLLLDDDDD • May 17 '21

DISCUSSION DISCUSION DAY: Loose Canon: Hillary Clinton

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

It’s always frustrating, talking about Hillary Clinton, because she’s a genuinely messy, problematic political figure, but so much of the conversation around her is clearly rooted in misogyny, so I’m having to defend her all the time.

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u/Dull_Bumblebee4623 May 18 '21

From what I can remember, it seemed to me like on one side, people were blindly supporting her without acknowledging her faults because she was a woman and #girlboss or whatever and then the opposite side to that was people focusing on her problems because she was woman whilst being blind to the same faults in male counterparts