Women Everywhere: Please Stop Embarrassing Yourselves In The Wake Of Hillary’s Loss
[guest post by Dana]
Like most of you, I have grown weary of the endless wailing and gnashing of teeth by the perpetually self-absorbed who have refused to accept the results of our democracy at work. Instead of maturely accepting that Trump won the election, these individuals would rather nurse their pain and miserably wallow in Steps 1 and 2 of the 5 stages of grief. Instead of mustering up a fighting spirit and work to build a stronger party and push for a more robust candidate in 4 years, they would rather hold onto their pain. Given that the Natural Man is basically a big, self-indulgent baby, this misery actually feels good to those who believe they’ve been done wrong. It validates them and their existence, and gives meaning to their wanting lives. Their hurt is today’s new shiny badge of honor. And they wear it with great pride. But, while this feasting at the table of self-indulgence and nursing at the massive teat of denial keeps reality at bay and fuels a collective tantrum, it also renders the individual weakened and lost in a swirling vortex of hyper-charged emotion.
This past week, I’ve been keenly aware of the collective response to Hillary’s loss by her loyal sisterhood of true believers. Their cringe-inducing histrionics are daily setting women back untold decades. Pearls clutched? Check! Fainting couches (wo)manned? Check! Welcome to 21st century womanhood: that time in history where women **had it all, and it still wasn’t enough to enable them to accept that they did not get their way. Petulance is such an unattractive quality.
And they continue to embarrass themselves:
“All In” host Chris Hayes noted that, while women of color voted “overwhelmingly” for Clinton, the former secretary of state did only “a point better” among white women than President Barack Obama did in 2012.
Hayes asked McIntosh why Clinton failed to get more white women supporting her.
“Internalized misogyny is a real thing, and this is a thing we have to be talking about,” McIntosh replied.
“We as a society react poorly to women seeking positions of power,” she continued. “We are uncomfortable about that, and then we seek to justify that uncomfortable feeling because it can’t possibly be because we don’t want to see a woman in that position of power.”
Because Hillary Clinton is more than just a president wanna-be. Uh-huh:
Hillary Clinton’s name belongs on ships, and airports, and tattoos. She deserves straight-up hagiographies and a sold-out Broadway show called RODHAM. Yes, this cultural canonization is going to come after the chronic, constant, nonstop “On the other hand” sexist hedging around her legacy. But such is the courage of Hillary Clinton and her supporters; we reverse patriarchal orders. Maybe she is more than a president. Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself. The presidency is too small for her. She belongs to a much more elite class of Americans, the more-than-presidents. Neil Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Fucking Hamilton.
Hillary Clinton did everything right in this campaign, and she won more votes than her opponent did. She won. She cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second. Instead, she will be decorated as an epochal heroine far too extraordinary to be contained by the mere White House. Let that revolting president-elect be Millard Fillmore or Herbert Hoover or whatever. Hillary is Athena.
And just when you think they can’t embarrass the gender any more than they already have, another cringe-inducing wounded howl of anguish is heard:
Wow, I have to admit Silverman is way funnier than I ever realized. But, if they could, I think any number of women would beg to differ with her about that Great Depression she and her pals believe they are experiencing:
**Well, had it all, except for the presidency…
–Dana
Such a stunning lack of self-awareness from so many.
Dana (d17a61) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:05 pmThe one thing to remember is this a time-honored tactic, regardless of whether Trump is the President-elect or whomever. Trump may or may not be deserving, but Alisnky attacks are the same.
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
“Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
“The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
These are the rules of the left. This is how they live, breathe and eat. They do not care about life, family, faith or death.
It is their religion.
Never forget that.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:56 pmBig reason why I voted for Trump is because of who hates him (or anyone with an R after their name).
NJRob (a07d2e) — 11/16/2016 @ 10:00 pmhttp://ace.mu.nu/archives/photobomb.jpg
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/17/2016 @ 5:06 amJust a couple of things, Dana.
1. We don’t teach history anymore, really. So terms like “The Great Depression” are more about movies.
2. When you spend all your time with your own group, who all think the same, your brain gets weird. You have no one to tell you to stop being ridiculous. That goes for the Right as well as for the Left.
Breathless overstatement seems to be the agenda of the day, recently.
Emily Litella put it best.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2364
Thank you for posting this, Dana.
Simon Jester (c63397) — 11/17/2016 @ 5:11 amThanks for the perspective reminder, Dana. Unfortunately the idiots who most need some will probably not see your post. I have some perspective to share, too. Yesterday I attended a play with a friend and her 91 year old mother. The old lady is in very poor health and lost her husband last winter but she still is living as best she can. Her occasional afternoon at the theater with us is one thing she seems to enjoy very much. When her husband passed she joked (sort of) that she didn’t think she’d last much longer but that she planned to hang in there a little while more because she really wanted to live long enough to vote for and see a woman elected president. I was therefore a tad nervous about seeing her yesterday, and I certainly did not intend to bring up the election. At intermission she finally said, “You know, my girl didn’t make the election.” And I said “yes, I was thinking about you that night”, and waited. Then she said, “Well I’m quite disappointed, but I’ve seen worse in my life and a lot of other people are happy.” That was that and then the second act of the production started.
elissa (ead691) — 11/17/2016 @ 5:29 amI think I’ll be watching this every morning for the foreseeable future, to kick the day off… this and a cup of good coffee… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grD_IINiH9c
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/17/2016 @ 5:37 amAnd then there’s the phrase I suspect we all heard growing up:
Karl Lembke (cd9062) — 11/17/2016 @ 6:03 amI’m a woman and if internalized misogyny defeated Hillary, I’m all for it.
Rochf (877dba) — 11/17/2016 @ 6:45 amI don’t think of hillary as courageous. Shameless comes to mind for me.
Jim Morgan (52ceae) — 11/17/2016 @ 7:01 am#7 Colonel Haiku:
Truly an inspirational video!
I feel better for having watched it!
Thanks!
orcadrvr (3cc3b1) — 11/17/2016 @ 7:08 amI hope we get a lot of rainfall out here in California, so they can do their cryin’ in teh rain…
Colonel Haiku (b209d4) — 11/17/2016 @ 7:13 amAnd that is why women should never have gotten the vote. Having a vagina in no way qualifies one for the Presidency. Especially if said vagina is attached to a corrupt lying criminal like Killary. So no matter how bad KleptoKlinton is she’d vote for her because she wants to “see a woman elected president”? What a great patriotic reason to vote!
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/17/2016 @ 7:30 amFor all these spoiled brats who have never known a day of privation or hunger, who never had to worry about being drafted to go to war and die in some far-off hellhole, who think being called by the wrong pronoun is the worst outrage, I say grow up. Before it’s too late.
(Yes, loved the video, Col. Haiku!)
Patricia (5fc097) — 11/17/2016 @ 7:50 amGreetings:
And the lying lips, having again lied, lied on as the former next President sang, “Don’t cry for me Ameritina.”
11B40 (6abb5c) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:09 amShorter Dana: “Shut up woman and go fix me some dinner!”
Tillman (a95660) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:25 amI don’t understand the exhortation to “please stop” displays of hysterical stupidity on the part of Clinton supporters. The current display is relatively minor in comparison to the Madison silliness, the OWS nonsense and the BLM idiocy and Sean Trende has a very good piece today which outlines the cumulative electoral impact of recent public histrionics on politics.
“By all means, continue” hues more closely to Napoleon’s dictum “Never interrupt your enemy when [s]he is making a mistake.”
Rick Ballard (bca473) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:26 amIf this is what passes for intelligence around here, it’s deplorable.
DRJ (15874d) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:35 amFor those who don’t want to check, that’s a link to Hoagie declaring women shouldn’t have the right to vote.
John Hitchcock (29d9e2) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:40 amFYI, that particular Dana iz woman.
John Hitchcock (29d9e2) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:42 amI think all the business about people being emotionally disturbed by hearing certain things is just an excuse to shut people up.
It’s not even true. Nobody is a snowflake – it’s all lies. It’s just that the claim people are emotionally hurt is, or coulsd be, a more or less acceptable reason for shutting people up. Otherwise you hhave this problem of the principle behind freedom of speech.
First they did this with regard opposition to gay marriage and homosexuality and disputing what somebody’s declared sex is.
Then there was this push to extend it to challenging conventional wisdom in universiites about anything, and especially lies like those told by people who ciaim there is a rape epidemic, or who argue against symbols – even the nickname of the sate of Oklahoma, or who dispute anything Black Lives Matter might say, and even to support or opposition to certain political candidates.
They wanted to make supporting Trump totally unacceptable behavior. More than in a normal political way.
Sammy Finkelman (3997eb) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:46 amI don’t think Democrats should have been extended the right to vote.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:56 amPeople respond to incentives. If crybullying didn’t work people wouldn’t do it. The people who do it have all their lives known it to work. Sometimes they get surprised when they get jobs, that it doesn’t work so well any more. Depends on where you work.
Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:58 amGreetings:
All of you worried by “crybullies” are welcome to use one of my Father’s pearls of wisdom that he used when on of my associates strayed beyond his pale. “Next time you see your parents,” he would begin, “tell them I said they still have some work to do.”
11B40 (6abb5c) — 11/17/2016 @ 9:06 amwhat women need is an empowering theme song
happyfeet (a037ad) — 11/17/2016 @ 9:33 am@11B40:“Next time you see your parents,” he would begin, “tell them I said they still have some work to do.”
Witty retorts don’t do much good, when you’re being walked out the door because someone blasted you on Twitter and embarrassed your company.
Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1) — 11/17/2016 @ 9:35 amOh, for Christ’s Sake. She was beaten by a black man with limited government experience in 2008 and a white man with no government experience in 2016.
Hillary Clinton lost TWICE for one reason: she was a lousy candidate.
“But… She can’t sink. She’s unsinkable!” – Captain Smith, RMS Titanic [Laurence Naismith] ‘A Night To Remember’ 1958
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/17/2016 @ 9:39 amWow. All that after she straight up abandoned you on Election Night.
Bill H (971e5f) — 11/17/2016 @ 10:56 amThe Helen Reddy cover of “I Don’t Know How To Love Him“?
Bill H (971e5f) — 11/17/2016 @ 10:59 amI don’t think it was so much internalized misogyny as it was externalized disgust.
Bill H (971e5f) — 11/17/2016 @ 11:02 ami’ll have to google that at home
it sounds nsfw
happyfeet (a037ad) — 11/17/2016 @ 11:04 am#29–I’m with you on that.
Rochf (877dba) — 11/17/2016 @ 11:06 amSo she’d have been just as willing to support Sarah Palin as Hillary Clinton?! I just don’t understand that kind of thinking.
Milhouse (40ca7b) — 11/17/2016 @ 12:08 pmThat’s what she said: DEPLORABLE! Hahahahahaha. 41% of women say they are democrats but only 25% Republican. What is deplorable would be calling someone stupid because you disagree with something they said. Very left wing/Alinsky.
I meant it as a snarky joke, but apparently some of us need our service dogs and safe space if they something they don’t like. Wow.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EzFF5W0gitY/WA84OurbjAI/AAAAAAABC3k/cEGYEoCtrgEAlE4gQWtj8AKuE5Gz9YRxgCLcB/s1600/1%2B1%2B1ninetymilesxOdo81rjnp0ro1_500.jpg
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/17/2016 @ 12:28 pmIt’s embarrassing and hypocritical. These women were not enraged by the brutal treatment Sarah Palin received (both during and after her campaign); they only cared that the Republican who could stop the Obama-Democrat train was destroyed.
I grew up with ’90s era feminism. We were told that we could work just as hard in sports as men did; do just as well in chemistry, math, and physics; handle the pressures of top colleges or difficult jobs just as well as men; and, because we were just as capable as men, we could succeed just as men have.
This is embarrassing. It’s fitting that they are doing this all for a woman who rode her rapist husband’s coattails to political power (basically, the antithesis of how Palin became successful), but it’s embarrassing.
bridget (1c91a9) — 11/17/2016 @ 2:21 pmYes the hypovrucy is acid, Bridget.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/17/2016 @ 2:40 pmSpeaking of a stunning lack of self-awareness, I especially enjoy it when the rioters vandalizing businesses, assaulting people, and demand we ignore the results of the election and instead fix teh butthurt of the pro-Hillary! crowd start chanting, “This is what democracy looks like!”
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/17/2016 @ 2:52 pmregarding the butthurt:
Steven Malynn (d29fc3) — 11/17/2016 @ 2:59 pmShorter Dana: “Shut up woman and go fix me some dinner!”
Tillman (a95660) — 11/17/2016 @ 8:25 am
Try and read it again, Tillman, and try not to jump to a sexist snark.
Dana (d17a61) — 11/17/2016 @ 5:26 pmShorter Steve57:
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/17/2016 @ 5:45 pmSasquatch doesn’t exist. I hate to disappoint. But I have proof.
If Sasquatch existed the Cajuns would have a recipe for it.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/17/2016 @ 5:48 pmThis John Podhoretz piece, Bare, Ruined Choirs, lays out the results of eight years worth of squealing, whining and sniveling. The subtitle is “How Barack Obama wrecked the Democratic Party” but while I would give major kudos to Obama for much of the damage, I believe the SJW special snowflakes deserve much more than just honorable mention.
Conan had a good point regarding hearing the lamentations of their women. Rather heartwarming, really.
Rick Ballard (bca473) — 11/17/2016 @ 6:30 pmThe lyrics are for an entirely different reason, but an awful lot of the song applies here. I’m a little surprised you don’t know this song. It was a staple through the late ’60’s-early ’70’s.
Bill H (971e5f) — 11/17/2016 @ 7:09 pmWow, that rant by Virginia Heffernan is just plain embarrassing.
Rochf (877dba) — 11/18/2016 @ 1:19 pm