History's Greatest Monster Strikes Again

[Content Note: Misogyny; disablism.]

So, as you may have heard BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, Hillary Clinton made a joke during a campaign event yesterday. I hope you are sitting down, because this is MORE PROOF that she is A DIABOLICAL FIEND.

The joke is not helped by seeing the video. pic.twitter.com/W8n8EMh1gf

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 14, 2016

—'cause we're gonna have a lot of jobs, jobs from building infrastructure to coding. Creating new apps. I don't know who created Pokémon Go [cheers] but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to have Pokémon Go to the Polls. [applause]

HOW DARE SHE.

Lest you think I'm being hyperbolic, Peter Daou collected some of the media responses to Clinton's goofy joke. A few of GERJILLIONS.

I bet you're unsurprised to hear that I had a few things to say about that!

This actually made me laugh, but I'm an old lady, so. https://t.co/e1dHmCfZq6

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

@QuaereNon @pbump Upon consideration, it might be more relevant that I'm just a dork, lol.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

If my choice is between @HillaryClinton making a dorky joke and this sort of "humor," I'll take the dork every time. https://t.co/nCQb7iOYDB

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

If the media hadn't spent fully one million years dehumanizing @HillaryClinton as a robot, then we'd all know her authentic dorkiness by now

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

This is who she is. But b/c it's juxtaposed against a brick wall of garbage about how she's cold, it gets reported as "trying too hard."

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

Thirty years of "she's inauthentic!" and then she makes a dorky joke that's entirely and exactly who she is, and that's inauthentic, too.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

And do I really need to say that "humorless" is anti-feminist misogynistic trash 101? DO I REALLY NEED TO SAY THAT, MEDIA?

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

I'm just so profoundly exhausted w/ this dehumanizing rubbish. This doesn't exist in a vacuum. It exists w/in THREE DECADES of "can't win."

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

1993, people. DORK.

(And in case it's not obvious, I mean that as a compliment!) https://t.co/lNPfbzvwiD

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 14, 2016

And the result of my defending Clinton? If you guessed that I was harassed, give yourself a gold star.

What else is there to say?

Maybe this: I like you, Hillary Clinton. Authentically.