I agree w/ Hillary, it’s time to elect a woman for President. But I want that President to reflect the values of being a mother. #MothersDay
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) May 8, 2016
OK, is that the Jill Stein people are planning to vote for? Because that’s some really vicious sexist assholery.
What a stupid freak, seriously.
I literally just came here to ask you if you’d seen this vile tweet. The more I learn about Jill Stein and the Green Party in general, the less I like them. I’m not just voting for Hillary because she can win, she’s better than any of these pathetic alternatives I keep reading about.
One does want to like the Greens, but they are hard to take.
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As a mother and grandmother I have got to say that pisses me off.
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But she’s pure, Clarissa. Not like that horrible Hillary, who has actually been involved in government, and thus done… things.
So the Purity Progressives feel all comfy voting for her.
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Wow. I didn’t know she tweeted that. That’s awful. So Victorian. What’s are the “values” of motherhood? Can women who aren’t mothers be president? Do women have worth if they aren’t mothers? Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
And Clinton actually emphasizes her own role as a mother/grandmother quite a
bit (too much for my taste actually. ) So this also seems to be subtly suggesting that somehow Clinton isn’t a “real mother”– playing in to the old sexist canard that somehow Clinton’s ambition prevented her from being suitably feminine. Yuck.
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I’m very optimistically hoping that this might be Stein’s way of turning the people who were planning to vote for her away without actually dropping out of the race. I’m not very knowledgeable about her but, surely, she can’t be seriously promoting this ancient, sexist rhetoric.
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