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Wednesday, November 02, 2016

TIME: Hillary Clinton’s Emailgate Is an Attack on Women

In an op-ed for TIME magazine, Robin Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, writes that the FBI’s criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified email documents during her time as secretary of state is really a “bitch hunt” attack on Clinton simply because she is a woman. “It’s not about emails,” Lakoff writes. “It’s about public communication by a woman.”

From Lakoff’s TIME magazine op-ed:

I am mad. I am mad because I am scared. And if you are a woman, you should be, too. Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us.

The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female. Can you imagine this happening to a man? Clinton is guilty of SWF (Speaking While Female), and emailgate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she’s doing and must be punished, for the sake of all decent women everywhere. There is so much of that going around.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

BS! I am a woman and I don't believe that. She is a crook and women crooks everywhere should be scared yes. But only if she actually goes to jail.

Anonymous said...

The author evidently has an overabundance of liberal bias and confusion. Forty years doing the same thing in the gated community of progressive academia can do that to a person.

"Emailgate" isn't about gender or about language. It's about criminality. In the case of Hillary Clinton, the criminality is a hallmark of her behavior, going back nearly forty years.

Anonymous said...

its all they got. listen to Hillary on the stump she even brought the Beauty queen back and bill is saying he never said Obamacare is crazy

Anonymous said...

University of California, Berkeley
Nobody has listened to anything coming out of that Liberal fox hole in years. They are still on LSD.
good laugh though.....

Anonymous said...

I had a friend try to pull the same argument on me. My response was that it is sexist to give Hillary a pass for her behavior because she's a woman.