Hillary Clinton may have put her foot in her mouth again this week, but give her credit for unintentionally highlighting yet another of the many logical and moral self-contradictions in the worldview of the modern Left.
Clinton lost even the Left the other day when she said President Bill Clinton’s affair with intern Monica Lewinsky wasn’t an abuse of power. But by what once was feminist ideology, Hillary Clinton had a fairly reasonable point. The feminist catch-phrase “I am woman; hear me roar” has never been openly discarded, but in practice, it has been replaced by “I am woman, eternal victim.” Depending on whose ideological point is most important in any given circumstance, girls and women are either lionhearted warriors just as tough as men or else wilting flowers with no will or moral agency of their own.
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