Hillary Sexism Watch: Part Eighty-Goddamn-Nine

Our friend Mannion steps up to the plate and hits part eighty-nine out of the park, responding to what he rightfully calls a "strange, strange essay by Michael Wolf in the newest Vanity Fair." Wolf's entire essay is made of just utterly creeptastic FAIL, but here's the money shot (as it were; emphasis mine):

The Hillary story is—and how could it not be?—largely a sexual one. This is not so much a sexist view as a sexualist view: What's up here? What's the unsaid saying? What's the vibe? Although it's not discussed in reputable commentary, it's discussed by everyone else: so what exactly is the thing with Hillary and sex, with the consensus being that she simply must not have it (at least not with her husband; there are, on the other hand, the various conspiracy scenarios of whom else she might have had it with). It's partly around this consensus view of her not having sex that people support her or resist her. She's the special-interest candidate of older women—the post-sexual set. She's resisted by others (including older women who don't see themselves as part of the post-sexual set) who see her as either frigid or sexually shunned—they turn from her inhibitions and her pain.

Quoth Mannion: "[T]hat paragraph alone should consign [Wolf] to his shrink's couch for several hundred hours of psychoanalytic unraveling." Indeed.

Meanwhile, argues Wolf, Obama can have no "sexual secrets" because his wife is hot and would kick his ass if he cheated. Okay.

It's a huge clusterfucktastrophe, basically—so thank Maude for Mannion for dealing with this one, because I don't think I could muster the energy.

I can, however, report that after being in the same room with Hillary Clinton, my libido is still functioning just fine, so all reports of her sucking the sex right out of any who have the misfortune of treading 'cross her path are untrue. I also looked at her directly without turning to stone.

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