'The Curse Is Come Upon Me!'

[grinning_soul]

I won a bet - and I wish I hadn't.
My most recent hobby: following the US presidential primaries. I find it absolutely fascinating, if infuriating at times. A few days ago I talked to my mum about the exaggerated media coverage of Hillary Clinton's 'emotional meltdown', i.e. the fact that although she didn't actually cry but only sounded a little husky for about 10 seconds in a Q&A session, most headlines used the words 'tears' or 'crying' to portray her as cracking under pressure and being all weak and mushy. (This is true for European newspapers as well.) And I predicted that now that the former frigid Snow Queen (damned if you do, damned if you don't) has been outed as being 'feminine' after all (i.e. overly sensitive, prone to public displays of emotions), the old 'women menstruate = they can't be leaders because hormones make them go crazy once a month' argument would be popping up again soon, never mind that it's a) bullshit and b) highly probable that Clinton is menopausal by now (but that's just me trying to be rational - I know, silly). Soooo, check out this cartoon published in the Washington Post (via Pandagon). She cries, she bleeds - even though she didn't and she doesn't. (Or is she just a stand-in for all women?) This is the kind of wildly irrational sexist thinking which really drives me up the wall. And what is it with the obsession about bodily fluids (in this case, blood and tears) when it comes to  denigrating women? Argh!