In these gender-confused times, the pronouns one uses to describe someone of the other sex -- or rather, gender identification -- have become politically weaponized. Thus, after Sunday evening’s contentious debate between candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza was surprised and suspicious that Trump used such loaded language as “she” and “her” to refer to his female opponent.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday, Cillizza argued that using feminine pronouns like that, Trump is not going to win over any pronoun-sensitive women or independents:
“He needs independents, he needs women. There’s just not much there last night that I think would convince you if you were not for him previously, particularly if you’re a woman. He kept referring to Hillary Clinton as ‘she,’ ‘her,’ which I think was a concerted strategy, I’m not sure why.”
Whaaat? His analysis received no protest or request for clarification from hosts Joe Scarborough or Mika Brzezinski.
WaPo pays this man -- excuse us, person -- to appear in print and on television to provide insightful political commentary, and this is his -- er, sorry again -- takeaway from the debates?
We call media bias on Cillizza, who had nothing to say about Clinton's equally "concerted strategy" of hurling the offensively masculine pronouns "he" and "his" at her -- geez, there we go again -- counterpart Trump.
If Cillizza can indulge in conspiracy theories, so can we. What are we to make of this fly's sexist, concerted strategy of landing on Clinton's face and not on Trump's?
H/T Mediaite
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