Understanding the popularity of Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” amongst young women helps explain the mixed feelings about Hillary Clinton. She’s not a “cool girl.” But this is actually good.
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Hillary & the Pressure To Be a Cool Girl
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged cool girls, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Hillary Clinton, Jeff Lindsay, Psycho, Robert Bloch, Sarah Palin, Sexism, Sexual Politics, Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris Comments closed
Limbaugh’s Clinton-Ratched Comparison
Rightwing radio host Rush Limbaugh regularly compares Hillary Clinton to Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and, in so doing, can be said to have paved the way for misogynist Donald Trump. If it’s Trump vs. Clinton in the general election, things will get ugly.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged 2016 presidential race, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Ken Kesey, misogyny, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, politics, Rush Limbaugh Comments closed
The V-Word: Casting Hillary as Duessa
The rightwing attacks on female sexuality have a long tradition, going back to Pliny the Elder, and include Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton. Expect the tradition to continue if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Canterbury Tales, Faerie Queene, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hillary Clinton, Merchant's Tale, misogyny, Wife of Bath, Wife of Bath's Prologue Comments closed
Hillary before Judges Like Tolstoy’s Pierre
The Congressional Committee to Investigate Benghazi is like the military tribunal in “War and Peace” that questions Pierre. It is interested only in answers to lead to conviction.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Benghazi, Benghazi investigation, Congress, GOP, Leo Tolstoy, politics, War and Peace Comments closed
What Kind of Con Man Do You Want?
Gogol’s “Dead Souls” shows us two conmen, one who is a lot like our president, the other like various politicians (including Ryan, McConnell and Hillary Clinton). The boisterous and ineffective conman comes off better that the carefully calculating one.
Donald Trump as Citizen Kane
Donald Trump’s favorite film is “Citizen Kane.” Is he drawing on Kane’s campaign for governor in his demonization of Hillary Clinton?
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