I’ve been on vacation so this is extremely late. Readers of mine will know that I have on occasion praised Senator Hillary Clinton for her toughness, and to this day, I still believe that the dumbocrats are making a serious blunder in apparently choosing the rookie senator from Illinois to run against Senator McCain in the general election. And of course, I’m fine with that.
Given my admiration for Clinton’s grit, I’ve also been disappointed in her reliance of late on playing the the sexism card. The great Peggy Noonan nails it on the head with her excellent article for the Wall Street Journal titled “Sex and the Sissy.”
In her commentary, Noonan compares Clinton to Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi. She concludes that none of those great female political leaders would compliment Hillary on playing the sexism card. She goes on to write the following:
It is sissy. It is blame-gaming, whining, a way of not taking responsibility, of not seeing your flaws and addressing them. You want to say “Girl, butch up, you are playing in the leagues, they get bruised in the leagues, they break each other’s bones, they like to hit you low and hear the crack, it’s like that for the boys and for the girls.”
And because the charge of sexism is all of the above, it is, ultimately, undermining of the position of women. Or rather it would be if its source were not someone broadly understood by friend and foe alike to be willing to say anything to gain advantage.
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