Yesterday we talked about Hillary’s big social crime, which is to play men’s games by men’s rules rather than to attempt to play them with feminine roles.
I was reading Leslie Bennett’s FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH? last night and she made a point applicable to Hillary.
“Conveying their strengths and attainments to others is so far from the expected female style of self-effacement that women experience it as ‘bragging’ – in other words, socially unacceptable boastfulness. . . For middle-class American women, the constraint is clear: talking about your own accomplishments in a ways that calls attention …read more