{"id":612,"date":"2008-03-05T08:46:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T12:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2008-03-05T21:59:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T01:59:21","slug":"compatible-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has Hillary Clinton been subjected to more "scrutiny" on account of her gender?  All signs point yes.  A cursory examination of the media coverage will find Clinton having to contend with questions directed at gender in a way that, say, John McCain won’t.  Here’s just one of countless examples.  Enter Maureen Dowd<\/a> (courtesy of Media Matters<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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After saying she found her
\n"voice" in New Hampshire,
\nshe has turned into Sybil. We’ve had
\nExperienced Hillary, Soft Hillary, Hard Hillary, Misty Hillary, Sarcastic
\nHillary, Joined-at-the-Hip-to-Bill Hillary, Her-Own-Person-Who-Just-Happens-to-Be-Married-to-a-Former-President Hillary,
\nIt’s-My-Turn Hillary, Cuddly Hillary,
\nLet’s-Get-Down-in-the-Dirt-and-Fight-Like-Dogs Hillary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Just as in the White House, when her cascading images and
\nhairstyles became dizzying and unsettling, suggesting that the first lady woke
\nup every day struggling to create a persona, now she seems to think there is a
\npolitical solution to her problem.<\/strong> If she can only change this or that
\nabout her persona, or tear down this or that about Obama’s. But the
\nwhirlwind of changes and charges gets wearing. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Maureen Dowd, by the way, is supposed to be a liberal.  But, like we’ve been saying, the liberal op-eds disappoint<\/a>.  In the face of such evidence, Ruth Marcus<\/a> argues that Clinton cannot claim to be "hampered" by her gender.  Marcus’s claim (isn’t she supposed to be a liberal too?) has what we professionals call a ring of falsity to it.  But she also makes a conceptual claim to support the false empirical claim:<\/p>\n

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The candidate of inevitability and the victim of the uneven playing field aren’t compatible concepts.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThe candidate of inevitability is an empty concept.  There might have been a presumption among media types like Marcus that Clinton was the candidate of inevitability, but there hadn’t been an election yet.   Besides, being a candidate for a job, as I can attest from personal experience, doesn’t mean you’ll get the job–or that you even have a chance of getting the job.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has Hillary Clinton been subjected to more "scrutiny" on account of her gender?  All signs point yes.  A cursory examination of the media coverage will find Clinton having to contend with questions directed at gender in a way that, say, John McCain won’t.  Here’s just one of countless examples.  Enter Maureen Dowd (courtesy of Media … Continue reading Compatible Concepts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,84,88,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category-mistake","category-maureen-dowd","category-ruth-marcus","category-things-that-are-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}