How freaking dare Matthews accuse Hillary of playing the gender card? Who the hell has been playing the gender card, the race card and even the religion card for the last two hundred years if not white males like Matthews?
I am sick of this garbage. I really am.
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Chris Matthews had the nerve to say that when Hillary said, "I'm your girl" she was playing the "gender card." He said she was also playing it when she visited her all female alma mater and last night.
Of course, if she said "I'm your woman, I'm your sister" he would accuse her of it too (It wasn't the word "girl"). So every time a male has said, "Vote for me, "I'm your guy, or I'm your man" has Matthews accused them of playing the gender card? Of course not.
People have been playing the gender, the race and the religion cards for two centuries in this country. Do Matthews and all the other neocons think there hasn't been a woman in this role because we didn't want it? Do they think we are still making less than men because we want to?
Do Matthews and his neocon buddies honestly believe that when woman and/or minorities point out these issues it is because they want to "play" anything?
Give me a freaking break!
Let's get real people. Why has it taken so long for a minority male, or a woman, or anyone other than white male, mostly anglo saxon protestant, to gain the power of this office? BIAS, that's why!
Of course Matthews and his cohorts don't even recognize their own misogyny. Same thing with xenophobia. Matthews doesn't even get it. Nor does Dobbs. The good old boys club is just going along as always.
Others do it too. Yes, females can be misogynistic too. Just like some minorities can be racist. And bigotry in religion is all over as demonstrated by several major religious leaders. Pointing it out is not playing cards.
I have to laugh every time "liberals" accuse Al Sharpton of "playing the race" card as if our jails are not overwhelmingly filled with young black males.
Once I had an acquaintance complaining to me how it's all the fault of minorities and women that her son didn't get into medical school. Those weren't her words but her message was clear. I didn't say a word.
"Well, don't you agree?" she confronted me. "Don't you think its unfair to guys who are not minority?"
"No, I don't."
She was in a huff because I told her that in the overall scheme of things, I really did not believe white males got a bad deal. That was as nice as I could put it.
Her son is a nice kid, eventually got into a different school and is doing quite nicely.
My point is that no matter how people want to pretend there should be no difference based on race or gender or religion, history says something way different. And if we dare mention it, if some women say the fact that Hillary's a woman does matter means we are playing the gender card, so be it.
It's 2007, a year before the election. This democracy has existed since 1776. That's 232 before a woman, or a minority male, has been a serious contender for this office.
And, in a panic, anytime the female candidate addresses women about this milestone, she is playing the gender card? Was Barack playing the race card by going on a gospel tour of black churches? Why wasn't Matthews all bent out of shape over that?
Do men like Chris Matthews and his ilk not get it?
This is ridiculous. Her gender is an issue. A woman as "commander-in-chief" will be judged harsher on whether she can be tough and strong enough. Just ask any woman who has applied for any traditionally male position from firefighter to school superintendint. For forty years of my teaching career, the overwhelming majority of educators were women, and the overwhelming majority of school superintendents were male. That is a fact.
Matthews himself has already mentioned that "Can she be tough enough for leading the military?" Has he asked that about Fred Thompson, actor? He already loves how tough Guiliani is.
I am really frustrated. I accept that some here just don't like Senator Clinton because of her stance on the war.
That's fine. But, don't tell me for one minute that is why these misogynistic pigs went after her. They love them some pro war Guiliani and McCain and of all the candidates on the left, they single out Hillary? Does that contradiction make sense.
Yes, Chris there is a gender card and it has been played for you and yours for two hundred plus years. Now, because for the first time the gender card is being played differently you are hysterical?
Sick of it.