Posted on 03/28/2016 1:49:51 PM PDT by dennisw
Barbra Streisand lashed out at political pundits and the media at large on Friday, accusing them of demonstrating “outright sexism” and “sexist condescension” while covering Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“Why is it that today even a woman as impressive as Hillary Clinton is judged not by her merits and extensive resume alone, but held to a pernicious double standard?” the ten-time Grammy Award-winning singer wrote in a short essay for the Huffington Post.
She continued:
It seems that nothing much has changed. It’s been 24 years since I said in a speech for Women in Film, “Men and women are clearly measured by a different yardstick. And that makes me angry. Of course, I’m not supposed to be angry. A woman should be soft-spoken, agreeable, ladylike, understated. In other words, stifled. Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society.
It’s been decades since those speeches, but there is still outright sexism in much of the commentary on Secretary Clinton’s campaign.
As evidence of the “explicit and implicit” sexism of the media’s treatment of Clinton, Streisand cited tweets from Fox News’ Brit Hume, who wrote that Clinton was “shouting angrily” in one of her victory speeches, and from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who urged the candidate to “smile” after a particularly “big night.”
“Hillary Clinton has a great smile and smiles often. So does Barack Obama. So does Bill Clinton.
During the annual Women in Entertainment breakfast in December, the 73-year-old singer claimed women “are still treated as second-class citizens” on equal pay and representation issues, and added that “[g]ender inequality even extends” to mice used in laboratory experiments. The longtime Democrat and Obama fundraiser also blasted female journalists’ treatment of Clinton, calling them “antagonistic” and “judgmental.”
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No, i'm not bothering to respond to her point. She has no valid point. If Hillary were being judged on her merits, she would now be in prison.
Barb, you ignorant slut.
why the long face?
Cher & Stre3isand are two of the most successful RE investors in Malibu, Ca over the last 30 years. Gee....I wonder who the hell their advisers were ?
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She doesn't have any merit to judge.
We judge her by her lack of merit.
She has a lot of experience and nothing but a lot of disastrous results to show for it.
She's a bumbling, ham-fisted incompetent.
Like other hard core liberals she is determined to force her extreme views on everyone else and it always backfires.
Oh, stifle yourself Babawahwa.
I’ve never had any use for her.
Still don’t.
Oops, I’m sorry got my Wawahs confused.
If Bubba were Ted, babs would be on the list of 8 (or 10)
As much as I hate to admit it, Babs is right. Hillary is held to a different standard. She’s the one who created the “nuts or sluts” tactics to deal with Bill’s innumerable “bimbo eruptions”, but she’s portrayed as a champion of women’s rights. She just hosted a dinner with the guests paying $500k/seat, but she’s portrayed as a champion of the average working American. She is being investigated for using a private server for highly classified State Dept. correspondence, but no one questions her running for President while these accusations remain unresolved.
If this is Babs’ “pernicious double standard” to which Ms. Clinton is being subjected, where can I go to get a double helping?
Extensive resume? And what about her body count? From folks on our side?
Billary got 4 men killed in Bengazi, then lied.
She used her personal phone for state department emails.
She has accomplished nothing but incompetent handling of US issues.
She then states, “ what difference at this point does it make?”
After what she has done and NOT DONE, she has a lot of gall to even be running.
She, along with Obama, Jarrett, Holder, and Kerry should be IN PRISON.
I feel sorry for James Brolin. I’ve always wondered what he saw in HER??
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