tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post4319819068523546691..comments2024-03-29T07:49:20.875-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Hillary Clinton's candidacy is a big dealNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-66240730691832314512016-06-10T10:41:47.394-05:002016-06-10T10:41:47.394-05:00Succesful women seem vulnerable to hits even from ...Succesful women seem vulnerable to hits even from their own kind. Elizabeth Montague one of the first feminists and a founder of the Blue Stocking Society, wrote in 1750: "I'm sorry to say that the generality of women who have excelled in wit and education have failed in chastity."<br /><br />TETomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-26830652284288790442016-06-10T10:05:56.277-05:002016-06-10T10:05:56.277-05:00Trollope in one of his later travel books goes to ...Trollope in one of his later travel books goes to great length in enumerating the advantages to women of the chivalry of his day, lamenting that as women acquire rights and powers that such advantages are bound to dwindle away. However, looking back on how unfairly Jane Byrne was treated from day one of her mayoralty, chivalry does not so much dwindle away as become anti-chivalry once women have or grasp at power. Instead of holding the door open for women, men slam it in their faces, instead of laying their coat in the mud for a woman to walk over, they push the woman into the street and grind her face in the dirt, the fond courtesies of old turn into the foul curses of today. I hope Hillary is ready for 8 years of irrational and unrelenting hostility from the erstwhile "gentlemen" of our day.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-28960359871162174242016-06-10T09:23:00.986-05:002016-06-10T09:23:00.986-05:00Great column.
This is a special moment in histor...Great column. <br /><br />This is a special moment in history. But it is a moment in history that will be diminished and dirtied up by Trump and his GOP enablers.<br /><br />Hillary has been demonized by the GOP for so long that the easily led assume there is something sinister about her. Conservatives are dreadful at governing, but they understand the power of memes. <br /><br />Now we will have to deal with the spectacle of Trump, a man whose entire empire is based on insults, bullying and demonization, trying to win by eviscerating Hillary Clinton.<br /><br />At a moment in time when we should be counting our blessings as a nation for having the wisdom to consider a female president, we are about to get down in the gutter with a misogynist, racist, bullying, scoundrel. Heaven help us.Dennis Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03936110563379328219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-725156746705114762016-06-10T09:04:28.493-05:002016-06-10T09:04:28.493-05:00He was a man of his time. And he did once say &quo...He was a man of his time. And he did once say "a woman's place is in the wrong."<br /><br />But he publicly conceded that his wife was usually right when she suggested changes in things he wrote. Something Hemmingway would never do.<br /><br />TETomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-5514192724353935192016-06-10T08:55:42.391-05:002016-06-10T08:55:42.391-05:00Few were enlightened in those days.Few were enlightened in those days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-41175401615378408912016-06-10T08:45:57.609-05:002016-06-10T08:45:57.609-05:00Tom: I adore Thurber, but be careful about using h...Tom: I adore Thurber, but be careful about using him as any kind of a standard for judging or understanding women. When it came to women, as well as minorities, Thurber was not exactly, shall we say, enlightened.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-28045639365187909002016-06-10T07:59:35.255-05:002016-06-10T07:59:35.255-05:00Some considerable years ago a prescient James Thur...Some considerable years ago a prescient James Thurber observed that "Woman is everywhere gaining ground. Man is falling behind. The dog seems to be holding its own."<br /><br />And he wrote that women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. That equasion seems less apparent as more ladies have climbed the educational, corporate and every other kind of ladder. <br /><br />Tom EvansTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-71891211275323593562016-06-10T07:03:19.234-05:002016-06-10T07:03:19.234-05:00That is somewhat similar to young African-American...That is somewhat similar to young African-Americans taking the Civil Rights movement for granted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com