Hunyo 10, 2013

Hillary Clinton on Twitter "jokingly styles herself as a 'pantsuit aficionado,' 'hair icon' and 'grass ceiling cracker.'"

Reports the BBC.

I don't know if it was the BBC or Hillary who is to blame for the typo "grass ceiling cracker," but it made me think of the famous old Camille Paglia quote: "If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.''

Which could be rewritten: "If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts, and crowing about breaking grass ceilings, and I do mean crowing, not tweeting, because there wouldn't be any Twitter either."

53 komento:

madAsHell ayon kay ...

I thought cracker was racial epithet, but now cracker is a good thing??

Rocco ayon kay ...

madAsHell said:
"I thought cracker was racial epithet, but now cracker is a good thing?

It's like the "N-word". Only persons of pallor can call themselves or others "cracker".

Irene ayon kay ...

NBC reports the tweet without the "typo."

(And doesn't one "shatter," not "crack," a glass ceiling?)

Big Mike ayon kay ...

She's the one who's cracked, not the ceiling.

pm317 ayon kay ...

wow, that is one offensive and pessimistic outlook about female capabilities (by Paglia and you). Why even go there?

edutcher ayon kay ...

She cracked nothing.

Her marriage did.

Much like Moochelle's.

PS I think you're right, Irene. To crack glass is not necessarily to break it.

David ayon kay ...

She is the one she's been waiting for.

Methadras ayon kay ...

The creation process for women is essentially creating children and birth. It's their biology, it's what they do. Men on the other hand while contributors to the creation of other human beings are vast creators of everything else. Nearly every invention, thought, and idea you can attribute to them. Sure, there are many breakout women, but their numbers pale to what man has brought to bear. Good and bad.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Nothing like riding personally flawed 60's idealist Bubba statesmen as far as they'll take you, apparently.

Lydia ayon kay ...

And Bubba's just been named Father of the Year!

Irene ayon kay ...

@Lydia, And the chose a photo of Clinton pointing his finger to accompany that story!

Irene ayon kay ...

typo!

*they*

Peachy ayon kay ...

Wow. More Clintons. Can't wait.

Titus ayon kay ...

Her thighs are gross.

On her "off" time she needs some major work done on her ass and legs.

I would recommend she get a little tit job too. Get those things looking more pointy.

Eyes need some work too and chin.

She doesn't need to go all Pussy Galore Pelosi but she needs some tightening up.

Titus ayon kay ...

She needs to have her dick cut off too and give it to Chaz Bono.

Titus ayon kay ...

Grass Ceiling sounds like the paremeter of where the cooch wax ends.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Hillary is like Jefferson

Hillary is like Madison

Hillary is like Monroe

Hillary is like J. Q. Adams

Hillary is like Van Buren

Hillary is like Buchanan.

Making reservations?

Peachy ayon kay ...

After Obama and Holder set up and institutionalize China-esque spying on congress, Fox news, the AP and anyone it deems a political enemy --won't the Clintons be awesome over-seeing it?


Ahh...It will be fun to watch the leftwing media-Hollywood mega-mouths push and pimp the perpetual power of the Clintons psycho-drama.

Sweet.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Derbyshire this week reports that Hillary is back in Chappaqua, chanting spells.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

The first chapter of Sexual Personae is well worth the read.

Bruce Hayden ayon kay ...

I don't see her as much of a glass ceiling cracker. She got where she is right now primarily by marriage. She made partner in a law firm through being the wife of the governor. She got visibility and name recognition living in the White House. She got campaign funds and political connections through her husband, including the selling of Presidential pardons. And, she got the Secretary of State gig at least partially through Obama buying her husband's backing for President with it. Not something that very many other women have. Maybe, ultimately, Michelle. Probably no one else.

Astro ayon kay ...

I can believe she's a cracker. Not like the honest, decent, god-fearing crackers here in GA and Northern FL. She's the 'cracker' that Chris Rock talks about.

Revenant ayon kay ...

"Glass ceiling cracker"?

She was the 30th female Senator and the third female Secretary of State. The glass ceiling cracked well before she got there. :)

She's the first President's wife to win a Senate office, but "achieving power via one's husband" isn't exactly a new thing for women either.

Skeptical Voter ayon kay ...

Since she's "coming out" in her new bio, I don't think she was riding Bubba all the way to the top. Maybe someone else--but not Bubba.

bbkingfish ayon kay ...

Never thought I'd see Hillary refer to herself as a "cracker." Guess the libs are wrapped up, so now she can make a pitch for the Bubba vote. Politicians will say anything to get elected.

Titus ayon kay ...

Does she ever orgasm?

somefeller ayon kay ...

It's nice to see that our next President has a good sense of humor and is willing to embrace technology.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Paglia wrote that there's no female Mozart because there's no female Jack the Ripper.

So you can't believe every theorem of hers.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Not that Mozart was that great, except for the Mass in C minor maybe.

garage mahal ayon kay ...

It's nice to see that our next President has a good sense of humor and is willing to embrace technology.

Every statement will be parsed, every tweet scrutinized. The butt hurt as she cracks the nuts of Republicans is going to be epic.

Chip S. ayon kay ...

Is it established that the quote wasn't actually "crass, venal character"?

Peachy ayon kay ...

Hillary calls herself a cracker - how presidential.

You know- since everyone clearly loves her, and she's so amazing, let us forfeit the vote and usher her in without any voting.

bleh ayon kay ...

Serious question: what are Hillary actual accomplishments? More to the point, what would she have accomplished if her husband wasn't a charismatic and transcendent political figure who, in most other countries, would be president-for-life? Would she be a practicing lawyer, a partner in a big firm, a law professor, a prosecutor, a stay at home mom? Would she have been anything special at any of those vocations? I think not, frankly.

A real tribute to feminism. Riding her husband's coc ... er ... coattails to power and fame.

richard mcenroe ayon kay ...

Well, I'll give her the cracker.

somefeller ayon kay ...

Every statement will be parsed, every tweet scrutinized. The butt hurt as she cracks the nuts of Republicans is going to be epic.

I'm not sure if she'll run and 2016 will be a tough year (because of the eight-year cycle more than any other reason), but I hope she does if only to hear the hilarious shrieking she triggers from the GOP. She should embrace it and do things like post a photo on Halloween with her saying "boo!" to a sweaty-looking photo of John Boehner.

richard mcenroe ayon kay ...

Of course, what she doesn't mention is she broke the glass ceiling falling through it after she was fired from the Watergate investigation for suppressing evidence she feared might be exculpatory.

Titus ayon kay ...

If she does run she needs to sex it up a bit.

Once she has the plastic surgery I want to see in her in a leather minnie like Palin.

Also, she needs to show more cleavage. I want to see a cross necklace dangling between her bustline.

When the fat is sucked out of her ginormous thighs she needs to show more leg. When she sits down we should be able to see her grass ceiling, similar to Brittany, or Anne Hathaway.

ampersand ayon kay ...

So who actually is her ghost twitterer?

chickelit ayon kay ...

Saltwalter, bad for glass
Pantsuit, bad for claque
Hairdo, bad for clacker

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

I'll take it from here...like those other Secretaries of State.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Jefferson, Madison...

JAL ayon kay ...
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Barry Dauphin ayon kay ...

Maybe she paid George Takei $10 to write that tweet for her.

The Godfather ayon kay ...

Bill is the Clinton I think of when someone mentions grass.

Kevin ayon kay ...

Whoever wrote that is completely un-self-aware. Glass ceilings are broken, not cracked. They are just screaming an invitation to read that as "cracker."

Chip Ahoy ayon kay ...

Grass ceiling. It's more a root ceiling resulting from a grass roof.

Howard ayon kay ...

People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

Steve Koch ayon kay ...

Titus,

Hillary wears pants cuz her legs are world class terrible. No amount of surgery is gonna make her legs look good, not gonna happen.

My understanding is that her Hollywood backers realize the gravity of the situation and are developing sleeves for her legs that are made of blue screen material to facilitate digital image transformation of those unsightly gams to make them much less revolting to the eye. Unfortunately this will not help those unfortunate people who see her in person. I believe the current work around for those unfortunates is to wear a special type of bifocal where the bottom half of the lens is blacked out (and, of course, averting the eyes usually works).

AllenS ayon kay ...

The person who wrote that Tweet for Hillary is a young man who doesn't comb his hair

Darrell ayon kay ...

There was a female Mozart--Hildegard of Bingen, 600 years before her male counterparts. She grew up with a musical family that survived by traveling Europe to be sponsored by Noble families. She was a prodigy, but her father reined it in because music was only considered a gentle hobby for females at the time. Her younger brother was a prodigy, too. And when word spread about his abilities, he became the family meal ticket. When she found the courage to reveal her compositions, she was entering her teens--too old to be the prodigy that was in vogue. But her work was revolutionary--she wwrote the first opera.

Steve Koch ayon kay ...

Mr Chesh,

Fuck you for completely ignoring the accomplishments and oppression of the transgendered throughout history.

Peachy ayon kay ...

Hillary Clinton - then and now.

The campaign ads write themselves.

Treasure trove, baby.

Screech

Mr. Chesh ayon kay ...

When were the transgendered brought up once? If this article was attacking transgendered people then hell yes i would stand up for them. I believe in equality for all regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. That's as much as most of you could say especially the author of this article.

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