Most readers have probably seen Hillary Clinton’s rude display of pique when an African had the gall to ask her what her husband, former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who is widely admired and respected throughout Africa, thought about foreign policy. Now, as you can hear in the clip, Hillary Clinton’s imperious, undiplomatic behavior is cast as righteous indignation over how Congolese women are treated. The newscaster even throws in a couple of submissive statements to his wife and female boss (they’re “always right”) before reporting on the excuse for Hillary’s little fit. Disgusting.
Of course, Congolese women have had it hard during the war, but what of the men? Have more women died? I seriously doubt it, but this is American feminism at work: the men don’t count. Even the young boys who have been pressed into service – some seized from classrooms – are largely ignored. So for the sake of her sisters, Clinton can get aggressive with male students who ask her questions she doesn’t like, or that appear to undermine her authority as The Most Important Woman in the World, and our press outlets can be counted on to offer only cringing platitudes to wives and female bosses as they bow and scrape to the feminist overlord.
Hillary Clinton is now in Liberia to support its first female president. We know nothing about the woman; in fact, I’d never heard of her before. Turns out there’s a good reason for that. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, has been named in the final report issued by the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Committee as a political financier and supporter of the warlordism that has plagued the country for decades, displacing well over a million people. She is a former supporter of warlord Charles Taylor, and a key player in various insurrections. Because of these activities, the report recommends that she be barred from office for thirty years.
Imagine that. Hillary Clinton defends her rude behavior on the one hand by suggesting that she’s standing up for women’s (rather than human) rights in the Congo, and then promptly flies over to support a female warlord with the blood of thousands – many of whom were undoubtedly women – on her hands. The hypocrisy is brutal.
What this clearly demonstrates is that feminism isn’t about human rights at all, but rather power — especially for “big women” like Hillary Clinton and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. We should be thankful that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was sent to deal with the North Koreans instead of her. In a geopolitically crucial region such as Korea, where millions could vanish in the flash of atomic blasts, the last thing we need is a second-rate supporter of tin-pot despots calling the shots. Not that the North Koreans ever would have made a deal with her anyway — oddly, even they have proven themselves more diplomatic in person than Hillary.
If the new American foreign policy mission is promoting feminism, i.e. female dominance, let’s get that out in the open and argue its virtues here at home. Despite the fact that there are some serious moral issues with exporting any political ideology, we should at least figure out whether we approve of what our politicians would force on others. If not, there’s a good chance we’ll be making a lot of enemies and losing a lot of friends, and we have only to look at countries like North Korea to see why that’s a bad idea.
12 responses so far ↓
1 sestamibi // Aug 13, 2009 at 9:15 am
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, Orwell defined the vision of the future as a boot stamping on a human face, forever. He didn’t foresee that the boot would be a stiletto heel and the face would have a beard.
Slowly but surely, western men are catching on.
2 BeltainAmerica // Aug 13, 2009 at 9:54 am
Ya I always love it when Feminist start raving about Africa, about the rape and slavery towards women there.
They foam at the mouth about it but fail to then add that the men are lying there dead having been a victim of the same ethnic cleansing and tribal war.
But only the rape matters to them.
I have long had a theory that this is why women are actually much colder and able to detach themselves from their feelings and turn on men like they have in the US.
After thousands of years of being the spoils for the victors they by natural selection have become more able to detach themselves in the aftermath. So the women who could do this of course went on to pass that trait on.
The men of course were just dead.
3 Lukobe // Aug 13, 2009 at 10:01 am
Of course it’s about power — most things are.
Interesting addition to the Orwell quote, sestamibi. I’m not 100% sure I agree, though. In a case where the physically stronger group is being dominated, if that’s what’s happening, it’s at least partially through their consent. No? Not blaming all men, of course, just the ones in power. You’ll have read my thoughts on that in previous threads.
It’s all about power, folks. It’s not men vs. women or black vs. white or Christian vs. Muslim or what have you.
4 alphadominance // Aug 13, 2009 at 10:16 am
Yep, it was an appalling lapse of state control from a supposed diplomat. I am very happy however that she didn’t win the presidency. Imagine the damage she could have caused then.
5 Lukobe // Aug 13, 2009 at 10:33 am
Why did she take the Secretary of State job, anyway?
6 BeltainAmerica // Aug 13, 2009 at 11:04 am
Well I imagine, just guessing anyway, that once she lost the primary she was pretty sure Obama was in for 8 years. At the end of 8 years I believe she will be too old to seriously think about running. She took the job to fill that up till now highest female in politics spot and also was more than likely under some pressure to firmly add what remained of her loyal female support to Obama and lessen the damage Palin could take from the female vote.
It is pretty easy to see why she was pissed. She should be president now, all the good diplomatic spots are assigned to other MEN and report directly to a MAN not her and her husband a MAN stole the spotlight from her again by going to North Korea. All why she sits in Africa looking fat and getting asked questions about the opinion of a MAN by some other bigoted MAN!
Just my empathy for Hillary at work here
7 Savvy // Aug 13, 2009 at 11:47 am
I thought Hillary was rude about it and ought to have handled it better. It’s normal to want to know what a former president thinks. That being said, Billy boy has been a bit of a cad in the past. From a media standpoint he had just done a good act by going to North Korea to spring our girls.
8 novaseeker // Aug 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Hillary got State as a part of a deal with the Obama campaign according to which she agreed to get out of the race and avoid a floor fight in Denver about the MI and FL primaries, rules committee disputes and so on in exchange for the promise that, should Obama win, she would get State. Likely the Clintonians demanded State because it is the most senior cabinet position.
The Obama administration, interestingly enough, has bent over backwards to undermine her, though. A whole lot of the thornier diplomatic assignments have been parceled out to other people, as special envoys and the like.
9 BeltainAmerica // Aug 13, 2009 at 12:32 pm
OMG Nova isn’t that what I said? Only you didn’t give it the “channeling female rage” empathy approach.
JEEEEZ get with it
10 Grim // Aug 13, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I’ve never been a Hillary supporter but honestly she got the shit end of the stick with being Sec. of State. And looking at her she knows it. Obama has treated her like dog shit. Any other president treating a Sec. of State in this manner would have people condemning his pettiness from here to hell.
So she is reacting the way a pissed of bitch reacts… lashes out at anything even mildly off putting.
11 BeltainAmerica // Aug 13, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Ya I think your right Grim. Also did you ever read … oh man I cant remember her name now… She was a very liberal activist type from Berkley and switched to conservative with a bang after she saw the hate mongering thrown at Hillary supporters after Obama started pulling ahead.
I wish I could remember her name some of her accounts of attacks on Hillary supporters was unbelievable.
12 sestamibi // Aug 13, 2009 at 9:51 pm
BeltainAmerica–
I think you are referring to “Robin in Berkeley” who is a frequent contributor to The American Thinker.
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