Letters to the Editor
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Nutcrackers
I wonder if these come with maternity pants.
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I would never buy one for the reasons you state, but
I would've thought they would have also made it a bottle opener.
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Funny
The irony is that the real Hillary probably hasn't had any nuts between her legs for decades.
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Femophob/Femophobia
Femophob/Femophobia/Femophobic; Someone who fears strong willed, independent women, and the threat they pose to failing patriarchal systems.
The Hillary nut cracker is definitely Femophobic. and whoever thought it up is definitely a Femophob.
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Don't know what to think
except I never understood the anxiety of certain men to such potential maladies. I guess some guys walk around like their nuts are too big. Whatever.
But it did lead me to this thought.
What sort of male behavior would be such that women would cringe in fear that their sexuality and indeed identity could be crushed? What would the resulting product consist of?
My guess is women do not live in such fear of having their femininity destroyed with any mere male behavior.
Which leads to the inevitable question about gender parity and sexual politics and how men suffer extra vulnerabilities and anxieties that women do not.
Am I off on this?
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Fet
go back to the drawing board.
there are lots of strong willed, independent females who are not nutcrackers.
Hillary has a penchant for being tough and rude. That leads to her being labeled a nutcracker, not her position or willpower.
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Actually
The next time I am in negotiations with foreign dignitaries, I plan on pulling out one of these Hillary nut cracker to show that I mean business negotiating for America's interest. Don't we want a mean, ball breaking, bitch in the white house during these trouble times? Imagine how Kim Jong Il would feel if he saw Richard Holbrooke or Bill Richardson sitting across from him cracking nuts with a Hillary nut cracker.
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thighs of steel!
Does anyone else think this product is not serious?? Look at Hillary's expression!
Maybe their next product will be an exercise video showing how Hillary maintains her amazing, nut-crushing leg strength..."I have thighs of steel...and you can too!"
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@brightstar65
brightstar65 I think you just earned a Femophob label, ya Femophob.
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Nutbreaker?
Eh, I'm not buying it. If I think of men I've seen labeled ballbusters, they're REALLY tough, really in your face, they don't let anyone get away with anything - like drill seargeants in movies. And Hillary may be tough, but is she really drill seargeant tough? I don't think so - that simply wouldn't fly for a politician, and she is a politician.
Also - "That is so perfect! I have often said, when she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs."
Shouldn't Tucker Carlson be really ashamed for saying anything like that? Why ARE some men so ridiculously insecure in their masculinity that a woman and her IDEAS can make them afraid? And isn't leg crossing supposed to be effeminate anyways? "Real men have balls so big they can barely walk!" or something like that?
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No female equivalent to "emasculation"
Brightstar65 asks (in part):
What sort of male behavior would be such that women would cringe in fear that their sexuality and indeed identity could be crushed? What would the resulting product consist of?
My guess is women do not live in such fear of having their femininity destroyed with any mere male behavior.
That's because femininity is ALREADY identified with weakness and vulnerability.
When a man finds himself in a weak position relative to a strong woman, he may feel emasculated and threatened, as though he has lost or is about to lose something (his power perhaps). But when a woman finds herself in a weak position relative to a strong man, that is seen culturally as the natural order of things, so her femininity is not threatened.
If anything, when I am confronted by a strong or overbearing man, I (a woman) fear not that I will be de-feminized but that my response may deemed TOO feminine or will be perceived as revealing an inherent weakness based on my gender.
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lol
failing patriarchal systems
yer funny.
Miss South Carolina would probably agree, stating that patriarchal systems are failing because not all people have access to patriarchal systems, and that as US Americans it is our responsibility to make sure that all the South Africas and Iraqs have access to the same systems that she did, in order to show the South Africas and Iraqs how successful failing patriarchal systems have been in making her a liberated, informed, articulate, modern American woman.
Is there a Hillary Clinton Bratz doll? I'm sure Rockefeller will come up with one, just like his family came up with and bankrolled Women's lib in order to get them into the market place so that the Federal Reserve (i.e. the international banks that run it) can collect income taxes on their labor. Pretty simple actually, housewives don't pay income taxes and working women do.
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Tucker Carlson has balls??
That is the most hilarious part of this article.
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@emmers
"Why ARE some men so ridiculously insecure in their masculinity that a woman and her IDEAS can make them afraid?"
Well I'm not afraid, and being supportive of feminist (in my pre-married days) got me laid quite often. Yeah I know that's a sleazy thing to say, but it's true. Feminists are the best women in bed, because you rarely meet a cold fish Feminist, because Feminists like to be in control during sex, and a woman who knows what she wants in the bedroom is the best sex partner to have. Note that I said women not girls, because I have never slept with a woman who was younger than 22.
Strong willed, independent women are most alluring to the modern man, and though I am in a committed relationship in a nuclear family, I still consider myself a modern man. I can look, admire, and appreciate, but not touch, and I haven't touched another woman since I got married (and I never will).
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Destiny
It's going to be great to see it used in a porn film.
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Pendragon
That 'female weak, male strong' thing is a cliche created by messed up sexual politics.
I see that women are strong inside and externally showing weakness towards men based on that inner strength.
Conversely, I see men as weak inside but with an outer shell portraying them as strong.
Which is stronger: a moss covered rock or an egg?
That some (most) men buy into the opposite pretense indicates they are not too bright. Women can relish buying into the pretense because they are on the dominant side of the equation.
I also see men's vulnerability as indicative of them being placed in the position of seeming strength by the women around them. Figure, women do not pick wimps, they pick strong seeming guys, all the better if the guys have a vulnerable fleshy inside (that women can take advantage of when getting back at the man, but I digress).
I am weird, I cultivate strength inside myself based on going with the flow of life and disregarding female prerogatives that demand I show strength. On top of this I let myself be as vulnerable as I can (the artistic creative me), with a more recent outside eggshell of toughness in order to appeal to women's interests. Call it screwed up, but this is how I grew up. This is also what many strong women in politics are like (and a few men).
I agree, there is not male equivalent that can utterly destroy a woman's innate femaleness. Another weakness not addressed by feminism since feminism is ultimately anti male.
Women enjoy the pleasure of being so powerful within society that they have the luxury of seeming weak.