{"id":180436,"date":"2017-04-19T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/19\/a-well-deserved-beat-down\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:48:00","slug":"a-well-deserved-beat-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/19\/a-well-deserved-beat-down\/","title":{"rendered":"A Well Deserved Beat Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Halper looks at Susan Bordo&#8217;s paean to Hillary Clinton, <i>The Destruction of Hillary Clinton<\/i>, and her related OP\/ED in the <i>Guardian<\/i>, and observes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2017\/04\/a-feminist-millennial-explains-feminism-to-a-femin.html\">she gets the facts wrong, contradicts herself, and removes any agency from women who disagree with her<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026 Your piece sets out to blame millennial feminists and show us what we  did wrong in supporting Sanders, but it winds up illuminating your own  failings, sadly not uncommon among certain Clinton supporters,  especially those who chose to blame everyone and everything but Clinton  for her loss:     <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An over-identification with Clinton and her biography  that eclipses appreciation of young women\u2019s lives and hardships and the  political differences<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Basing an argument solely on personal impressions, vague remembrances, mental and emotional associations<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A condescending tone with occasional unconvincing gestures of respect and understanding for your younger sisters<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Misleading statements, omissions, falsehoods or  indisputable error, here related to Clinton\u2019s statements on  superpredators and warranting an immediate editorial correction<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just a brief excerpt of what is a point by point &#8220;Fisking&#8221; of what is a self-absorbed, incoherent, and deeply dishonest screed.<\/p>\n<p>It is well worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Halper looks at Susan Bordo&#8217;s paean to Hillary Clinton, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, and her related OP\/ED in the Guardian, and observes that she gets the facts wrong, contradicts herself, and removes any agency from women who disagree with her: \u2026\u2026\u2026 Your piece sets out to blame millennial feminists and show us what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[756,464,689,389,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-180436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-feminism","tag-good-writing","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}