Hillary Sexism Watch: Bill Maher Edition

If you don’t have time to watch the video or read the transcript of Bill Maher’s bit about Clinton, the point seems to be “bitches are crazy with all their moods.”
Please note my complete lack of surprise that Bill Maher is being a jerk. Apparently having different tones over the course of a few weeks is the same as having different personalities. Now, I can understand his confusion, since Maher can only manage to be a smug asshole.

It would be really helpful to me if misogynists could all get on the same page about why they hate Hillary Clinton. Is she cold or a hysterical woman? Can we get some consistency here?


Corrente Wire has a transcript:
Bill Maher: I’m not trying to be sexist here, but I’m just saying that women try a lot of different tacks when they’re in arguments.
Harry Shearer: Do you remember the website in the 90s , where it was all her different hairstyles?
Maher: Well, hairstyles.
Harry Shearer: Yes, but now there’s going to be a website with all her different personalities.
Maher: Well, we made a montage, actually. Just to show you that, just — I’m not being sexist — I’m just saying that men, when we argue, we’re kind of a one-trick pony, we try our one thing, and then we —
Shearer: We yell.
Maher: And then we sulk when we don’t get our way.
[Plays a clip of Hillary, misty-eyed at a campaign event]
Maher: But look at Hillary Clinton. Because the first thing a woman does, of course, is cry. [Affecting a dramatic, teary voice] “I just want to be happy. Why can’t you just love me?�
Maher: And then they go to sweet talking.
[Plays a clip of Hillary complimenting Obama at a recent debate]
Maher: “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me! And you look so handsome in that tie!�
[Plays a clip of Hillary saying “shame on you� about Obama’s “Harry and Louise� brochure]
Maher: And then they throw an anger fit totally unrelated to anything. “Stay home and watch the game. See if I care.�
[Plays a clip of Hillary mocking Obama’s soaring rhetoric]
Maher: And when it doesn’t work, they bring out the sarcasm. “Oh, I’m just a woman, I couldn’t possibly understand the issues like you could.� Don’t write me, please ladies, don’t write me.
Christopher Hitchens: And then if you say “whine, whine, whine,� they say that’s sexist.

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