“It’s just like The Breakfast Club, except everyone is 70, evil, and maybe sundowning.”

“There is a block of professional white women who relate very closely with Hilary’s experiences with sexism. But outside of that experience, something that excludes half the population and then a large chunk of the remaining half, Hilary is failing to be relatable.”

Actually, nope. Not even close.

There’s a difference between paying lip service to an idea and actually doing it. It’s actually nowhere near as easy as you suggest. These types of biases (i.e., gender, race, sexuality, etc.) are quite often much more deeply rooted than our conscious minds, and if it were as easy as saying “Misogyny is wrong, and of…

While specifically saying he opposed reducing sentencing for crack cocaine users. Whereas Clinton co-sponsored legislation to reduce sentences for crack cocaine to put them in line with powdered cocaine sentencing.

Whose record ISN’T tarnished by the time they qualify for President? There are no perfect politicians. This is what I find so tiresome and frustrating about Sanders supporters. Politicians are not fucking superheroes. What they represent on paper is NEVER awesome. That’s the nature of a single individual being tasked…

It also seems to be pretty hard for people to acknowledge that the majority of the excuses people use for distrusting or disliking her are complete bullshit either based on GOP talking points like Benghazi and her email server, Sanders talking points like her speech transcripts and being a corporate shill or things…

sure, of course — i also think part of my extreme annoyance with the “what ever could be wrong with this woman’s unappealing demeanor” is that it takes so much space over, and often controls in tone, the “what ever could be wrong with her record” question too

+ 100. The crime bill example is a perfect one. Somehow her support for it trumps Bernie’s actual vote for it. Time and again. Both have apologized, but only his apology is considered sincere.

It’s really bizarre, specifically when some liberals are like “I wish Biden would have jumped in.” Biden is to the right of her on almost every major issue with all kinds of character flaws of his own, but supposedly he’d have been a more believable progressive? Really?

In context it was more like people in gangs who murder kids are what people are calling superpredators and Bernie called the same people sociopaths on the floor.

It is really bizarre to watch people rip Clinton apart for her “neo-liberalism”, yet they shower Obama/Biden with love and praise. I’ve seen multiple friends on FB that continually slam Clinton for being so “right” sigh about how much they’re going to miss Obama’s progressive policies. O_o

I agree, found this article really amazing - You know how people who seem pretty sexist about Hillary & say, “if Elizabeth was running, I’d totally vote for her, Hillary’s just not the ‘right’ woman” welp, it only took a year of smearing for Warren to be seen as an “unlikable” “liar.” ONE. YEAR. So the 25 some odd…

Liberal men in particular are the first to say “I can’t be sexist, Elizabeth Warren!” and it drives me up the fucking wall. The absolute refusal to admit internal bias is in play with a lot of their “criticisms” is so offputting and disappointing. If anything it seems the people that dislike Clinton want to do so…

Another thing I think comes into play is that she is really no different from many Democrats that people like and respect when it comes to her flaws, yet she gets the most shit for those flaws.

If the reasons FOR disliking her were not so mired in sexist attitudes, it would be easier. It’s amazing to watch someone call her a frozen bitch and a slut in the same paragraph, in other words.

Well, it is because many of the reasons people distrust or dislike her are either the fruit of partisan attacks or actions that plenty of popular, liked and trusted male politicians have engaged in. Are there a couple things that fall outside those two issues? Yeah, but not enough to account for her ranking the same…

This seems to be a strawman, because even her fans would admit she’s flawed. This very story mentions that.

Yes, of course. She needs to be warmer and more grandmotherly, like the buxom, matronly Bernie Sanders.

“Hillary Clinton (who is imperfect and corruptible but an competent and experienced center-left public servant)...”

Star just for the fucking parenthetical at the end, I am dying.