Calling All “Bitter” “Old” “Disgruntled” “Irrational Madwomen,” Just Get Over It.

 

Stolen from The Real Barack Obama to whom I made the mistake of sending a link to before I wrote the story. Shameless thief I am she is!

Here is her piece as well as her shameless admission.
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You can be sure that our good friend Uppity Woman will be posting about Dahlia Lithwick’s Slate article The disturbing rise of the “Hillary Harridan”,  too. However, it’s finders, keepers, losers, weepers—she made the grave mistake of sending it to the RBO inbox.

Lithwick writes about this “disturbing” (her word) event thusly:

You know her. She’s got wild eyes and rumpled hair. At some point she stopped caring about the stains on her blouse. She’s hurt, angry, rejected, and she’s willing to take the whole damn place down with her. She is Lady Macbeth. She is Jane Eyre’s deranged pyromaniac Bertha Mason. She is Cruella DeVil and the biblical Lilith. She is Snow White’s wicked stepmother, Miss Havisham, and Emily Bronte’s ghostly Catherine Earnshaw. She is the oldest literary type around—the bitter madwoman, hellbent on revenge and willing to act against her own interest to win some respect. And now, to hear the media tell it, she is a Hillary Holdout; she’s a PUMA (Party Unity My Ass); and she belongs to 18 Million Voices.

[...] the rise of the “Hillary Harridan” is a disturbing development. It unearths a creepy literary type that harms women a lot more than it helps them. The suggestion that irrational, emotional, self-referential women are swinging the election is not a theme any woman should endorse. [...]

But the intriguing new twist is that long after Clinton conceded the primary race to Barack Obama, some of her supporters have willingly embraced this same media image of the irrational madwoman and attached it to themselves. It was sexist when Chris Matthews called Clinton a she-devil. But in allowing themselves to be portrayed—over and over—as petulant harridans, unable to “heal” from the wounds of the primaries, these Clinton supporters are embracing the same she-devil stereotypes they once claimed to resent. Today’s PUMA blog hisses “NO MORE MS GOOD GIRLS!!” [...]

They are given unlimited airtime, so long as they continue to threaten to topple the entire edifice of the Democratic Party in pursuit of some ephemeral, unreachable sweet revenge.

Oh, my, where have we seen this movie before? Could it have been from the forked tongue the silver-tongued Obamessiah who told attendees at the Congressional Black Caucus meeting back in June “that he hoped the Clinton supporters in the room would help as much as possible” to get him elected and, he said, “If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it.”

Sadly, folks like Lithwick and Taylor Marsh, whom she quotes in her article, just don’t get it and never will. Enough said.

Here’s to you, all you “bitter” “old” “disgruntled” “irrational madwomen”:

Uppity Note: Uppity would like to add one more video to round out the ludicrous nature of that Slate article and its Stockholm Syndrome author: