Hillary Clinton and the men who hate her
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But what exactly? Despise her they do, yet theyre also strangely drawn to her, in some inexplicably intimate way. She occupies their attention. They spend a lot of time thinking about herenumerating her character flaws, dissecting her motives, analyzing her physical shortcomings with a penetrating, clinical eye: those thick ankles and dumpy hips, the ever-changing hairdos. Youd think they were talking about their first wives. Theres the same over-invested quality, an edge of spite, some ancient wound not yet repaired. And how they love conjecturing upon her sexuality! Or lack of, heh heh. Is she frigid, is she gay? Heh heh. Yes, they have many theories about her, complete with detailed forensic analyses of her marriage, probably more detailed than their thoughts about their own.
My point is that you can tell a lot about a man by what he thinks about Hillary, maybe even everything. Shes not just another presidential candidate, shes a sophisticated diagnostic instrument for calibrating male anxiety, which is running high. Understandably, given that the whole male-female, who-runs-the-world question is pretty much up for grabs.
Recommended. Kipnis boils down the crowd she's talking about: "...guys with a lot of psychological baggage, emotional intensity, and messy inner lives."
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Hillary Clinton and the men who hate her