{"id":263354,"date":"2016-08-23T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hillary-and-the-glass-ceilings-illusion\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T18:33:39","slug":"hillary-and-the-glass-ceilings-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/hillary-and-the-glass-ceilings-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary and the Glass Ceilings Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_86041\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86041 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_407680252.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_407680252\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_407680252.jpg 500w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_407680252-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-978674p1.html?cr=00&amp;pl=edit-00\">Joseph Sohm<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/editorial?cr=00&amp;pl=edit-00\">Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meryl Streep must be a very intelligent woman to be such a good actress. So it was embarrassing to see her dressed in an American flag playing cheer leader for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic Convention. One must suppose that she is too busy studying for all her varied movie roles to have learned much about the sinister nature of Hillary Clinton\u2019s foreign policy. She proclaimed that President Hillary Clinton would be \u201cmaking history\u201d simply by being a woman. That means symbolic history. The fact that President Hillary Clinton is more likely to make <em>real <\/em>history by starting another war even more disastrous than those she has already helped get us into seems not to have occurred to Meryl Streep.<\/p>\n<p>Nor does it occur to millions of other American women who share the same illusion.<\/p>\n<p>Those women are thinking too much in terms of symbols and images. They are ignoring the major issue facing the United States: whether to make peace or war. They don\u2019t worry that the imminent conflict with the other major nuclear power, Russia, might affect themselves, their families, the world and the future. They feel that they will somehow personally benefit from the election of a woman to the U.S. Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The feminist idea behind this illusion is that by becoming President, Hillary will be \u201cshattering the glass ceilings\u201d \u2013 the invisible obstacles \u2013 that prevent women from rising to the top. Women everywhere will benefit \u2013 just as American&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/08\/23\/hillary-and-the-glass-ceilings-illusion\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Sohm\u00a0|\u00a0Shutterstock.com Meryl Streep must be a very intelligent woman to be such a good actress. So it was embarrassing to see her dressed in an American flag playing cheer leader for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic Convention. One must suppose that she is too busy studying for all her varied movie roles to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}