Argh.

[saffronhare]

Just saw a comment on somebody else's journal that really chapped my ass. (Not important who it was...respecting free speech and all, not really knowing this person.) But it totally chapped my ass.

I guess Hillary Clinton said something in an interview about how she'd love spend a quiet Saturday cleaning and organizing drawers...that she'd find it "extremely gratifying." The blogger thought the comment was "stomach-churning" because it "panders" to certain female voters and does anybody believe a smart woman would rather clean on one of those rare, empty Saturdays?

Um, yeah. ::raises hand::
Pandering or not, I do believe it.

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I won't pretend that my objections to the opinion were political in the sense that they have anything to do with H's platform or pandering. Hillary is a problematic candidate at best --and, hell, I even *worked* for her husband's campaign back in 1992. (When I had "Hillary Duty," ferrying her and Tipper around South Dakota, arranging appearances, and all that jazz.)

I'll own that what I really hated was the implication (perhaps not even there, but ripe for my misinterpretation) that doing something as basic as housekeeping can't be smart or enjoyable or preferable to other "smart women" things. I hoped feminism had grown up a bit more than that.

It's a burr under my saddle, is all.*

*And what an unfortunate, thread-jacking comment THAT is.