God, bitch, can’t you take a joke?
File under: seething, smoke coming out from my ears.
I am so fucking sick of the sexist bile that is spewing forth from people criticizing Clinton in this race. My particular issue is about this (Via Feministing):
This is bad enough in and of itself. Lending credence to gross sexual harassment (calling Clinton “frigid” in high school–and may I point out that we’re a long way away from that era) by bringing it up during a campaign for PRESIDENT?!?!?! This is why Katie Couric annoys the crap out of me.
But it’s worse, of course, because then people grab onto this as if the douchebag assessment of Clinton as “frigid” can translate to some personality flaw–a humorlessness. Because, you know, bitch can’t take a joke. She should have been nicer when I told her she had a nice ass. Frigid whore. (Ah, if only I could say I’ve never heard that construction. Inherently doesn’t make sense. But it doesn’t matter.)
Then HuffPo has some jackass blogging this idiocy:
By asking Hillary on 60 Minutes about being known as Miss Frigidaire in high school, Couric brought out more of the real Hillary:
COURIC: Someone told me your nickname in school was Miss Frigidaire. Is that true?”
CLINTON: Only with some boys,” Clinton said, laughing.
COURIC: I don’t know if I want to hear the back story on that!
CLINTON: Well, you wouldn’t want to know the boys either.
(Apparently, the real story, as reported by Carl Bernstein, is that Hillary’s high school yearbook predicted she would become a nun, and would be known as Sister Frigidaire.)
I am guessing the “some boys” that Clinton thinks Couric would not want to know were normal intelligent people who had a sense of humor and had spotted someone who did not. I don’t remember too many low-lifes working for our high school yearbook.
Awesome. You. Are. Awesome.
I don’t think this needs to be deconstructed or elaborated upon. It just deserves a two word response:
Fuck you.
by Sara @ 4:29 pm
