Kyle Drennen, MRC TV – December 2, 2016
On her MSNBC show on Friday, anchor Andrea Mitchell decried the fact that the usual liberal identity politics did not work with voters in November’s election. Talking to Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, she fretted over the revelation that campaign focus groups “showed that people related to Hillary Clinton as a man.”
Andrew Mayeda, Bloomberg Markets – December 2, 2016
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde called for greater attention to protecting the dignity of women, saying everyone has a responsibility to combat misogyny.
Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post – December 1, 2016
Early in the campaign, a 4-year-old girl dressed as Hillary Clinton for Halloween, wearing a blazer and carrying a briefcase, met her idol. The candidate, then vying for the Democratic nomination, posed for a picture with her mini-me after an event in the girl’s home town of Charleston, S.C., in 2015. Clinton told her she looked like a future president.
Michael Cavna, Washington Post – December 1, 2016
Françoise Mouly, who has been the magazine’s art director since 1993, and daughter Nadja Spiegelman will edit Resist!, a comics tabloid that calls upon artists to communicate through illustration how they feel about a Trump presidency. The newspaper, which the editors say has already received hundreds of submissions, is scheduled to publish by Jan. 20, timed to the presidential inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington the next day.
Madeline Conway, Politico – November 30, 2016
Kellyanne Conway faced a personal question on Wednesday: How, as a woman, she rationalized managing Donald Trump’s campaign given his history of making derogatory comments about sexual assault.
Danielle Paquette, Washington Post – November 25, 2016
At the Republican National Convention in July, Stephen Bannon praised his former website to a reporter, declaring: “We’re the platform for the alt-right.” But on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump told the New York Times that Bannon, his pick for chief White House strategist, isn’t part of that white supremacy movement.
Kenzie Bryant, Vanity Fair – November 17, 2016
Headlines and commenters declared that she wasn’t wearing makeup during her second public appearance since losing the presidency.
Katie Rogers, New York Times – November 17, 2016
This year, Svea Vikander has decided that she and Evla, her 3-year-old daughter, will be the focal point of her family’s holiday card. She decided to relegate her husband and son to a smaller picture below.
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic – November 12, 2016
There is no one reason—no finite number of reasons—why Hillary Clinton lost the U.S. presidential election. No amount of poring over polls will tell us the precise degree to which bias against women influenced the vote. What we do know is this: The United States still doesn’t have a female leader, as it hasn’t for the last 227 years.
Mrs. Clinton did what good girls — women — have to: She played by the rules. She put her head down and worked hard, devoted her life to service, waited her turn, and never got angry (or at least never showed it). She made mistakes along the way, certainly — but she had the résumé, the qualifications, the stamina, and she didn’t lash out when those things were questioned.