It Only Counts When Women Power Through
[guest post by Dana]
Powering through the narrative:
Salon wants you to know that all women power through, whether athletes, actresses, or presidential candidates:
Clinton’s health has been a front and center topic of public speculation and armchair diagnoses for several months now, all couched in the vague concern about whether this woman — this woman with actual political experience and knowledge — is less qualified to run the country than her Twitter-troll reality-show-star opponent. It’s a popular old ploy: Ladies, aren’t you too weak to do this stuff? Why don’t you just sit down and have a lemonade and leave the heavy lifting of running the world to the menfolk, dear? To which I say: You have got to be kidding me.
Powering through is what women do. Last month, Chinese Olympic swimmer Fu Yuanhui managed to shock the world by admitting that she’d had her period and had been feeling “a bit weak and really tired” during a medley relay. It was as if the reality that most of the 12- to 55-year-old female population of the planet still manages to get stuff done every single month was a revelation.
Three years ago, Jennifer Lawrence was diagnosed with pneumonia at the height of awards season, and though she scaled back some on her public appearances, she still managed to show up looking stellar in time to pick up her “Silver Linings Playbook” Oscar. Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth has asthma — even if you might not have been able to tell from the lung power she exerts in her tireless stage and TV work.
Oh, and Olympian and skating star Kristi Yamaguchi has asthma, too. And earlier this year, Lena Dunham shared a candid Facebook post about her endometriosis and her need to take a brief beat to rest, while acknowledging, “So many women with this disease literally don’t have the option of time off and I won’t take it for granted.”
But I am reminded of the unattractive response by notable women to a man who has to “power through” life every single day:
“Could you have gone after what you see as his hypocrisy by pointing out what he did in that rape case, what he did in these other cases, without the stark image of the empty wheelchair, which seemed to be trying to point people towards his own supposed disability?”
–Dana
These people.
Dana (995455) — 9/13/2016 @ 6:59 amall these propaganda sluts and their propagandas is just gonna get women killed cause the misinformed morons are gonna get sick and think they’re supposed to power on through
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2016 @ 7:02 ambesides stinkypig most decidedly did NOT power through did she
lol
i got video
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2016 @ 7:18 amIf all these women are strong fighters, capable of powering through everything, then why does “Julia” need the federal government to provide her with cradle-to-grave support?
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 9/13/2016 @ 7:41 amthis is what a press corps fully in the tank is like, contrast how they portrayed a female candidate who was on the campaign trail who was on the trail every day, doing two three rallies a day, eight years ago, she was crazy possibly with post partum, corrupt, an idiot, when she was none of these things,
narciso (d1f714) — 9/13/2016 @ 7:48 ampoppa podhoretz has more often than not been on the ball:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/norman-podhoretz-the-last-remaining-anti-anti-trump-neoconservative/
narciso (d1f714) — 9/13/2016 @ 8:08 amIt’s a marked sign of weakness when you have to keep reminding people you are ‘powering through.’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/13/2016 @ 10:39 amToo Weak To Fail…
Colonel Haiku (ede614) — 9/13/2016 @ 11:38 amNot women, female chauvinists. Mothers do not place themselves before their sons and daughters. Wives do not place themselves before their husbands. Female chauvinism, as its male counterpart, are dysfunctional aberrations or causes of political/social corruption.
n.n (9bf728) — 9/13/2016 @ 11:42 am“Powering through,” Maudie is literally ‘phoning it in.’
To CNN’s Anderson Cooper–and SF fundraisers.
Maudie to America: “Can you hear me now?”
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/13/2016 @ 12:06 pmThis woman didn’t get the memo.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/13/ivy-league-student-brought-to-tears-by-trump-chalking-video/
LBascom (7b6094) — 9/13/2016 @ 12:41 pmToo Weak to Succeed
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 9/13/2016 @ 12:42 pmYes women power through. That’s what they do. That is, unless someone brings them to tears by chalking a Trump slogan at Columbia University and forces them — FORCES THEM — to run to their safe space where they can then sing “I am woman. Hear me roar!”
You can’t have it both ways ladies, and those who don’t realize that are not even serious contenders.
T (38b354) — 9/13/2016 @ 12:51 pmGerman women encouraged to power though:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/german-officials-encourage-women-wear-sneakers-outrun-migrant-rapists/
LBascom (7b6094) — 9/13/2016 @ 12:58 pmMissing “r”…
LBascom (7b6094) — 9/13/2016 @ 12:59 pmShe is woman, hear her bore.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:09 pmHer campaign is falling apart.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:11 pmI know a “mansplaining” trap when I see one. #Iignoreyourwinbuttonliberalhacks
M Scott Eiland (1edade) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:12 pmI love how Bill said that Hillary has worked like a demon.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:14 pmBecause there’s no argument — she’s the devil.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-13/former-hillary-secret-service-agent-explains-why-her-fainting-video-really-scares-me
Your eyes weren’t lying they just didn’t catch everything.
Plainly not hypotensive but more than a petit mal seizure, e.g., merely freezing and staring.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/grand-mal-seizure/basics/definition/con-20021356
DNF (755a85) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:46 pmHere’s a woman powering through the suck that I can get behind…
LBascom (7b6094) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:49 pmOops premature posting. Link:
https://youtu.be/Agwm7ds1j3g
LBascom (7b6094) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:50 pmHillary does appear to have undergone a spot neurological exam before the 9/11 memorial event. They must have been worried about her.
Denver Guy (4750ec) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:52 pmhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-13/wapos-latest-theory-putin-poisoned-hillary
Like that might change things. More likely she has two or more disabling ailments disqualifying her for candidacy and signalling her well-deserved demise.
Next time #nevertrump back the strong horse, not the toy pony or the broken down nag.
DNF (755a85) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:54 pmThe Borg is lost:
DNF (755a85) — 9/13/2016 @ 1:58 pm21. Me likey.
DNF (755a85) — 9/13/2016 @ 2:16 pmI only lost consciousness while sober once that I recall. During flag football I accosted Ole Koehler for his team’s blocks in the back on a scoring run senior year HS.
I never saw anything but stars, but as far as I know popped instantly to my feet and gave him an earful, whiny little b!tch nothing.
On the ensuing kick off I gave him a cross-body block below the knees and he did not kill me.
Ole was over six feet 180 lbs., a Clydesdale.
DNF (ffe548) — 9/13/2016 @ 2:52 pmThe Clinton spin:
Watch good health in action: Maudie can walk from a doorway to the curb and stand as a car door is opened for her without convulsing and collapsing.
See! She’s fine. All is well. Move along.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/13/2016 @ 3:27 pmThe Clintons never miss an opportunity at graft:
http://usdefensewatch.com/2016/09/what-is-metrocare-home-services-and-why-are-they-located-in-chelsea-clintons-apartment/
Granny’s personal in-town clinic on the Federal dole.
DNF (ffe548) — 9/13/2016 @ 3:54 pmThe status quo is intolerable:
http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/29/federal-racial-discipline-quotas-create-chaos-in-st-paul-schools/
Note: St. Paul has the Hmong, Minneapolis the Somalis.
DNF (ffe548) — 9/13/2016 @ 3:57 pmMore ritual slaughter of infidels as though goats:
http://pamelageller.com/2016/09/isis-celebrates-eid-day-of-slaughter-with-day-of-slaughter-graphic.html/
DNF (755a85) — 9/13/2016 @ 4:58 pmit was around this time, that strigoi gibson set his trap, much the way cbs edited the charlie rose broadcast.
narciso (d1f714) — 9/13/2016 @ 5:03 pmIt’s not the collapse, it’s the cover-up
http://americandigest.org/sidelines/aainfectedhugger.jpg
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 9/13/2016 @ 5:19 pmMaudie needs a fresh act to distract.
Pair up with Tim [Harvey Korman*] Kaine, grab walking sticks, straw skimmers and red striped blazers… then go into a buck and wing, a la Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, for the television audience… cue orchestra:
‘Overture! Curtain! Lights!…
…On with the show, this is it!’
* Okay, nod to narcisso- Clem Kaddlehopper, but if memory serves, Red did him in mute pantomime.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/13/2016 @ 6:20 pmMayo on treatment:
Valium/Lorazepam/Diazepam is heavily controlled due to developing dependence, the ex has been on it since we met in 2000 so’s she can sleep.
DNF (755a85) — 9/13/2016 @ 7:37 pmhow have the dems won even when they lost, some details here,
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/775850088983912449
narciso (d1f714) — 9/13/2016 @ 8:03 pmMy great-grandfather broke his leg logging. He came to work every day and pulled out stumps until his leg was good again.
Gabriel Hanna (573faa) — 9/13/2016 @ 8:05 pmmuch like visa express, a program only noted by senator sessions,
narciso (d1f714) — 9/13/2016 @ 8:33 pmspeaking of which,
http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/restatement-on-flight-93/
narciso (d1f714) — 9/13/2016 @ 8:49 pmBefore becoming a lawyer, I worked in construction and the men I worked with “powered through” because they had to. They lived paycheck to paycheck and were the primary breadwinner. That was serious labor, and dangerous.
The idea that someone, who is surrounded by assistants and handlers is powering through anything when compared to the guys I worked with, or even the mothers that these media sycophants are pumping, is a complete joke. She can ask someone to pick up the slack, she can cancel any appearance. She can walk away anytime. The people I worked with couldn’t. Not for a single day.
David (e7f4d0) — 9/13/2016 @ 8:52 pm#41
David
I agree.
steveg (5508fb) — 9/13/2016 @ 9:20 pmThose are men who soldier on.
Same with coal miners, fishermen, oil workers, deep sea welders and *gasp* private security like the guys who died in Benghazi.
Men have roamed the planet, dying so their families could live, for millennia.
There is a great line in the movie Kingdom of Heaven which says something like: “I once fought for two days with an arrow through my testicle”
That sorta sets a high bar, but it is one men have met over and over.
Women do the same. In childbirth, but also again in the daily living where tired knees, sore backs don’t stop a mom from providing if a man is out of the picture to help.. and a mom will fight with an arrow through her breast for her children… this deal with Hillary?
NOT THE SAME THING
I’m sorry, but how did the collective “WE” come to believe that RODHAMS’ year long COUGHING ATTACKS and her COLLAPSE on CAMERA are in any way related to PNEUMONIA???? How did “WE” come to believe this to be true???
Just asking.
GUS (30b6bd) — 9/13/2016 @ 10:02 pmCaught the doc, ‘American Umpire’ this evening on PBS.
Recommend it.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/13/2016 @ 10:11 pm#18, Cruz Supporter, Ironically Rodhams and Janet Reno’s daughter is THE OMEN.
GUS (30b6bd) — 9/13/2016 @ 10:12 pmSteveg, GAWD LOVE YOU Brother, but you seem to forget when RODHAM went to the US MARINE CORP recruiting office in Little Rock…..attempting to JOIN THE FEW THE PROUD, THE MARINES. You remember Steve!!???? She was told NO WAY, you’re a glass ceiling broad, MAYBE THE “DOGS” WILL TAKE YOU. Hahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha we need a f@#$ing legal pad to collect the BEYOND TRANSPARENT AND BRAZEN LIES this complete waist of space has told. Only a willing Reeeeeeeetard could buy RODHAMS CRAP.
GUS (30b6bd) — 9/13/2016 @ 10:16 pmright up there with the mob of 1fs that prevented red queen from taking her lsat’s, lord love a large waterfowl,
narciso (d1f714) — 9/13/2016 @ 10:27 pmWomen overrated:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/13/motherless-babies-possible-as-scientists-create-live-offspring-w/
DNF (755a85) — 9/14/2016 @ 3:40 amLots of us “power through” illnesses and aches and pains, because we have to. Thing is, we also don’t lie about our conditions.
If the lovely Mrs Clinton and her campaign had just told the truth — yeah, I know: call the drug test lady! — and announced on Friday, when she was (supposedly) diagnosed with pneumonia that she had it, she’d have gotten ahead of the story, and probably been allowed to sit, rather than stand, at the memorial service. Instead, they did what they always do: lie, conceal, cheat, do everything but the honest thing, and then when she collapsed, it came back to bite her on her Depends® covered ass.
The Dana who's 63 years, 4 months and 22 days old (f6a568) — 9/14/2016 @ 11:58 amEspecially when, after watching a couple of videos of Hillary! fleeing the 9/11 memorial, unable to walk after being propped up against a post and then nearly falling, getting tossed in the van “like a side of beef” as one NYPD cop on the scene put it, what immediately comes to mind when I hear the words “powering through” is the image of her head powering through the pavement.
Which is what would have happened if her security detail and staffers hadn’t been there to catch her.
Steve57 (9595d5) — 9/14/2016 @ 12:47 pmAnn Althouse wrote:
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/09/no-ones-allowed-to-be-sick-sickness-is.html
Sammy Finkelman (329d95) — 9/14/2016 @ 5:42 pmhowGUS (30b6bd) — 9/13/2016 @ 10:02 pm
The Clinton machine has done a lot to imply that, and a spokesman has actually said the on;y thing wrong with her is pneumonia.
It could even be true that while there is something else, it;s not been diagnsosed.
Se hasn’t been taking antibiotics since kast Friday – she was taking antibiotics for two weeks. The only thin the pnewmonia diagnosis means is that the locus of infection has moved to the lungs, or that it has spread there. Previously, maybe, it was just an upper respiratory tract infection.
Sammy Finkelman (329d95) — 9/14/2016 @ 5:46 pm@51. “Ground beef”??
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/15/2016 @ 12:58 pmThe Dana who’s 63 years, 4 months and 22 days old (f6a568) — 9/14/2016 @ 11:58 am
I think she was diagnosed with an infection before, which they are not saying. They are saying allergies.
http://bients.com/hillary-clinton-secret-surgery-steroid-treatments-brain-scan/
On Friday September 9, 2016, Dr. Lisa Bardack, after not seeing her for a few says, diagnosed her with pneumonia, after doing a “non-contrast chest CT scan, including a CTA calcium score.”
Some doctors are saying there is no such thing as a “non-contrast” CT scan. Dr Lisa Bardack is using invented terminology or additional adjectives.
Sammy Finkelman (329d95) — 9/15/2016 @ 1:44 pm51. The next time, they will be ordered to stand down and not assist.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 9/15/2016 @ 1:59 pmThe Dana in Pennsylvania
It isn’t standing that caused her collapse. It’s walking.
I saw an artivle in the Personal Journal section of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. About the health benefits of walking and talking (at the same time)
There was a study of 74 people at the Unoversity of Pittsburgh published earlier this year in the Journal of Physical Acttivity and Health.
Sitting at a laptop for 15 minutes (and typing?) burned 20 calories and standing birned 22.
Walking for 15 minutes burned an average of 56 calories
So if Hillary wasn’t getting enough oxygen into her bloodstream, she was fine standing there, but walking to the car caused her to collapse, especially teh difficult task of bending. Of course it looks like she lost control of her legs and her left arm. Ran out of ATP maybe.
Sammy Finkelman (329d95) — 9/15/2016 @ 2:25 pmSteve57 (9595d5) — 9/14/2016 @ 12:47 pm
If they hadn’t been there she wouldn’t forced herself to walk.
Walking (at a pace of 2.6 miles an hour) burns 56 calories. Standing and working on laptop burns 22, and sitting burns 20.
Sammy Finkelman (329d95) — 9/15/2016 @ 2:27 pm