In her new book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Anne Helen Petersen examines how women like Clinton (“Too Shrill”) navigate near-constant policing and still manage (more or less) to embrace their supposed weaknesses. And, of course, in November 2016, Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election, despite winning the popular vote by almost three million votes and enduring a smear campaign capable of gutting just about any politician (yes, even Bernie, a hill I’m prepared to die on). In February, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s craven rebuke of Senator Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor-“nevertheless, she persisted”-reached cult meme status. Just last week, Senator Kamala Harris grilled Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the witness stand, only to be interrupted and reprimanded by an incredulous Senator John McCain, who, at 80, is old enough to know better. You no longer have to look far to find examples of women who are “too much” for our culture to handle, but brazenly DGAF.
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