PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is going to teach America a lot about itself, and in particular, that it has a serious problem with deep-seated sexism, according to MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid.
“[W]e keep on rediscovering who we are as Americans. Barack Obama made us rediscover that we still had still have issues with race, and you know what? We still have issues with gender, and Hillary Clinton is going to teach us that issue now as she runs to president,” she said during an MSNBC panel discussion, which was broadcast live from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Clinton formally became the Democratic nominee Tuesday, making her the first woman in American history to become the presidential candidate of a major party.
“I think that people react more negatively to a woman seeking power than a man seeking power,” Reid said. “Her pantsuits, it’s horrifying. She won’t put on a skirt. I mean, she won’t bake cookies. This is the narrative about her.”
“She was the woman … who was going to be an anathema to what they believe a first lady should be. She comes into the White House. She’s the pushy first lady who’s trying to do health care and try to force it on the men with Congress,” she said.
“So what did they do when they needed to reel her back? She went to children,” Reid added. “She went to ‘it takes a village to raise a child.’ She went to softer, nicer Hillary. She went to not saying, ‘Oh, I won’t bake cookies,’ to ‘I will bake cookies because I’m sorry.'”
