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Topic"the most flagrantly sexist candidate won" - Hillary Clinton
Capn Circus
09/08/17 12:14:10 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
weapon_d00d816 posted...
RebelElite791 posted...
Is she wrong?

Sexism wasn't really that big of a part of Trump's campaign. It was mostly racism and xenophobia. Hillary's campaign was largely about her sex.


Hillary using her status as a woman as a campaign strategy isn't sexism, though. It's a fact that there's never been a woman president. It's a fact that women have been oppressed historically. It's a fact that not that long ago women couldn't even vote or become senators. It's significant then that she was a woman, and it would have been obtuse to ignore that.

All of these things have significant political merit and pointing them out or using them as a part of your strategy is not sexism.

It would have been sexism if her strategy was more like "don't vote for a man", or "he's a man, he doesn't know what he's talking about".


Women have held positions of power for quite some time now, including being leaders of countries and CEOs.

The "shock" value of "wow, a woman!" wore off years ago. She's not accomplishing the unthinkable anymore.
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