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I think every man should, too. The title of this post is a quote from an article by Connie Schultz<\/a>:<\/p>\n I don’t think every woman should support Hillary Clinton just because she’s a woman. Smart women disagree all the time, and that has never been more obvious than in our heated discussions about Clinton.<\/p>\n I do, however, think every woman should support the notion of Hillary Clinton. That means judging her by her record and her plans for our future, not by her marital stamina, her choice in suits or her version of femininity. Even if we can’t support her as a candidate, we ought to acknowledge the history that she is making — for us and for our daughters and granddaughters. And we ought to point out to them that making history sure has a downside.<\/p>\n Recently, I learned that some airport shops are selling a “Hillary nutcracker.” She has a smile on her face and metal spikes between her thighs. I don’t worry about the candidate, who has learned how to handle such misogyny, but I do dwell on the young girls who might catch a horrifying glimpse of those steel jaws and decide that no woman should invite such vitriol. […]<\/p>\n Katie Roiphe writes that she has “yet to meet a woman who likes Hillary Clinton.” Lorrie Moore calls Clinton “a freak.” Amy Wilentz declares that Clinton’s recipe for chocolate-chip cookies “sounds awful” and that when Chelsea was a newborn, Hillary’s hair was “a wreck.”<\/p>\n On and on they go, bruising and battering the only woman to do what they — and the rest of us — could only dare to imagine.<\/p>\n All the while, 11-year-old girls watch.<\/p>\n And learn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Curtsy: Kate Harding<\/a>.<\/p>\n (By the way, Katie Roiphe is best known for an anti-feminist polemic she wrote years ago<\/a>, declaring that there must not be a rape crisis because none of her female friends told her she had been raped. It’s curious that, all these years later, Roiphe’s still making a similar error in logic.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think every man should, too. The title of this post is a quote from an article by Connie Schultz: I don’t think every woman should support Hillary Clinton just because she’s a woman. Smart women disagree all the time, … Continue reading