Re: How dare she deprive us of a great excuse to sneer?
by
tyrannosaura
05/05/2008, 2:33 PM #
She was supposed to divorce Bill so that we could say that she was an utter failure at marriage, and as a woman. Remember, since the beginning of the women's movement in the 1970's, antifeminist conservatives have been harping on the notion that the rising divorce rates are all the fault of uppity feminists who dare to tell women that there might be something better for them than enduring bad marriages. Hillary Clinton was supposed to act like an uppity feminist, not a loyal Republican wife who knew her place. But horror of horrors, just as Bill Clinton didn't resign the Presidency on cue when threatened with blackmail, Hillary Clinton didn't read from the script for the hard, heartless feminist. And so conservatives who had railed against the evils of divorce and of the presumptuous females who were presumably responsible for it had to find reasons to rail against a woman who held her marriage together.
Come on, it isn't the principle of the thing, it's the political capital you can make from it.