“Be smart, but not too smart.it goes on and on”, wrote a woman by the name of Michelle Jenkins in one of the top comments on the Humans of New York’s Facebook post of the interview.
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The verbal abuse got “very personal” but Clinton kept her head down. But I couldn’t respond. Her message seems to be this: If you get ragged on enough, you’ll get really good at ignoring insults so you can make it through the day and function in your job. She realized looking around that room that she was one of just a handful of women taking the exam. She told Stanton that, as a young woman, she had to learn to “control my emotions”. “And that’s a hard path to walk”, Clinton added. And sometimes I think I come across more in the “walled off” arena.
After Trump accused her of playing the “gender card”, Clinton welcomed the attack: “If fighting for equal pay is playing the gender card, then deal me in”. She appears “cold”, because for so many years, “cold” was the only way she could be strong, safe.
Following the NBC Commander-in-Chief Forum, Republican chairman Reince Preibus lashed out against Ms Clinton for not smiling during her appearance.
In a rare and deeply personal interview on the popular blog Humans of NY, the Democratic nominee said the public’s view of her as “cold” and “walled off” is the result of having learned to “control” her emotions.
“I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. But if that is sometimes the perception I create, then I can’t blame people for criticizing that”.
Clinton shot back on Twitter and on Thursday she dismissed the comment when speaking to reporters.
It’s no coincidence Clinton is the first female presidential nominee for a major political party in USA history, and she’s consistently struggled to gain the approval of white male voters – the group that has dominated American society throughout its history. And to the Clinton campaign: I happen to know a new-media start-up known for being unconventional that reaches a large audience of politically active readers, hint-hint. “Women are justifiably upset”.
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Clinton continues her story by saying that though her friends and family don’t view her as “walled off”, she has accepted that the public persona she’s cultivated comes off sometimes as unlikable or removed-because that’s how she thrives in combative environments (ahem, a male-dominated political climate).
