Strange World
It is a strange world and even stranger one for the female of our species. Just ask Hillary. Or Carrie.
Hillary Clinton is rumored to be on the verge of hanging up her cleats. Regardless of what you may think of her, there is no doubt she changed the game. Women aren't in the sidecar anymore. More than anyone else (are you listening Carly Fiorina) HRC gave a face to those millions of women who have been amassing power - corporate, political and otherwise -- throughout America in the last thirty years. She was formidable, resilient, smart and on many issues... right. In fact, she was so formidable, resilient and smart that many of her opponents were forced into leveling the most bigoted and immature slurs against her hair, her supposed sexuality, her age, her marriage and any other detail they could latch on to. She was so formidable, resilient and smart that many say her campaign was only tripped up by her bungling, blotchy, bellicose bedmate Bill. She didn't go away when many would have and in a Readers Digest type of way, she represents the dying of one era and the birth of a new.
Unless Ms. Bradshaw has anything to do with it.
At the same time Hillary's star crested,Sex in the City -- The Movie, opened to a record box office for a romantic comedy. According to the trades, 85% of its opening audience was female. Ok. You can see some symmetry. Chick candidate. Chick movie. Both succeed. Trouble is Carrie and co represent a very different chick than HRC. She was formidable, resilient and smart. The SITC girls ... not so much. They are obssessed with luxury items, boys, love (of the Teen Beat type)fashion, status and .. well.. a bunch of other superficial shit. (I know, we are supposed to dig these women because they are sexual agressors and in control of their lives etc. But isn't that damning with faint praise? I mean they are only as self actualized as Big and Hermes will let them. I am not sure if they are as independent as they are just self obssessed.)In short, they are not very much like HRC at all. They are more like a phase HRC went through when she was 13.
HRC busted a few stereotypes. SITC confirmed a few. If HRC blazed a trail to the future, SITC seems to be laying a tar road to the past.
Puzzling. Both phenomena at the same time. Same gender. Two different flavors. One step up, two steps back. Or two steps forward but in different directions. You tell me.
Hillary Clinton is rumored to be on the verge of hanging up her cleats. Regardless of what you may think of her, there is no doubt she changed the game. Women aren't in the sidecar anymore. More than anyone else (are you listening Carly Fiorina) HRC gave a face to those millions of women who have been amassing power - corporate, political and otherwise -- throughout America in the last thirty years. She was formidable, resilient, smart and on many issues... right. In fact, she was so formidable, resilient and smart that many of her opponents were forced into leveling the most bigoted and immature slurs against her hair, her supposed sexuality, her age, her marriage and any other detail they could latch on to. She was so formidable, resilient and smart that many say her campaign was only tripped up by her bungling, blotchy, bellicose bedmate Bill. She didn't go away when many would have and in a Readers Digest type of way, she represents the dying of one era and the birth of a new.
Unless Ms. Bradshaw has anything to do with it.
At the same time Hillary's star crested,Sex in the City -- The Movie, opened to a record box office for a romantic comedy. According to the trades, 85% of its opening audience was female. Ok. You can see some symmetry. Chick candidate. Chick movie. Both succeed. Trouble is Carrie and co represent a very different chick than HRC. She was formidable, resilient and smart. The SITC girls ... not so much. They are obssessed with luxury items, boys, love (of the Teen Beat type)fashion, status and .. well.. a bunch of other superficial shit. (I know, we are supposed to dig these women because they are sexual agressors and in control of their lives etc. But isn't that damning with faint praise? I mean they are only as self actualized as Big and Hermes will let them. I am not sure if they are as independent as they are just self obssessed.)In short, they are not very much like HRC at all. They are more like a phase HRC went through when she was 13.
HRC busted a few stereotypes. SITC confirmed a few. If HRC blazed a trail to the future, SITC seems to be laying a tar road to the past.
Puzzling. Both phenomena at the same time. Same gender. Two different flavors. One step up, two steps back. Or two steps forward but in different directions. You tell me.
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