What is it about a strong women

Question

That ticks off other people so much? Including some women. Just saying the name Hilary Clinton can send some people into hissy fits. It's a irrational hatred I've never understood.

Answer 1

Just as they play with the meaning of many words, feminists try to make the word 'strong' mean something other than we are used to.

I think everyone admires a strong woman e.g. one who can endure hardship etc.  But nobody likes a bossy arrogant a**hole, whether man or woman. Feminists think that they should 'have it all' because 'they are worth it' etc and that they are above criticism, especially by men. So today a bossy aggressive arrogant woman is defined as 'strong', and as a 'strong' woman she a success to the feminist movement and therefore above criticism.

Answer 2

Truly "strong women" do not have to be brash, narcissistic ,ball busting bytches, like Hilary ,Nancy Pelosi ,Barbara Boxer or Madline Albright.

For some odd reason these hags are equated with "strong women."

Answer 3

People hate hillary clinton because she is an uber liberal, not because she is a woman. Her supporters just want you to think its because she is a woman because it takes credibility away from those who do not like her

Answer 4

Why do aka strong women think they have to tell everyone that they are strong. Do they really think others would be to dumb to notice for themselves?.

Answer 5

breaking old barriers created by men to rule

Answer 6

Hilary Clinton ?

Clearly, we differ in our definitions of a "strong woman"...

Answer 7

I just find them annoying.

Answer 8

I've no problem with strong women at all, I just don't like a******s, of either gender. When a woman is saying "men don't like strong women" you can take it to mean,"I'm an a*****e and people avoid me".

Answer 9

There are still some morons who think women are a separate species; there's nothing to be done about them. Eventually they will have all died out.

But Hilary Clinton is another issue. My problem with her isn't that she's female or strong, but that she's corporate-owned, and too far right for me.

Answer 10

There is a difference between a "strong" woman and a "power hungry" woman.  Hillary is a power hungry woman.

Jackie Kennedy is a strong woman.

Answer 11

So, according to some of these answers, any woman who wants to take part in running the government, or have "power" in that sense, is a "brash ball-busting bytch."

And any woman who dresses nicely, behaves "as a lady should," and "stands by her man" is a REAL "strong woman."

Sounds like more misogyny at its finest.  

Answer 12

I hear you. When a man is forceful he is admired. When a woman is strong, she is seen as not being feminine. It a bunch of c**p and comes from the stereotype of the barefoot, pregnant woman in the kitchen who leaves the "important" work her man. My wife is an exec and is the major earner in our family. She is still a loving human being and I have never felt that she was less of a woman. Be strong and powerful and rule your own life.  

Answer 13

This of power like sharing the road.

Some people feel that the more people are on that road, the less road there is for them. They would rather less people on the road, than negotiating with more people on the road so that everyone can have access to that road and get everywhere they want to go without accidents.

If in the past only men, and then mostly men were on this road, the presence of a woman all of a sudden felt threatening. It meant that more women would come along and that there would be less road for them. Instead of giving up their feeling of entitlement and realizing that everyone is allowed to share the road, they feel that the road is theirs, that women have no place there and that since they were allowed on this road in the first place they should at least let men go first all the time so that they don't have to give up their place on the road.

Power works the same way. When less people have power, and there is a demand to distribute this power, it is a corollary that those in power will have to share, and thus give up some of this power. In other words, if women are to contribute, share and have a place in society, men will have to make some space by relinquish some of the space they have previously occupied.

This is an issue with any minority, whether it be based on race, s*x, class, gender or any other identity label that has allowed one group to systematically oppress another.

Strong women theaten the sense of entitlement to power that people have, and I think that's a good thing. The more we send the message that we're all allowed on this road and that even if we're not going to the same place, we should all be allowed to use it, the less one group will feel that they have more of a right to be the only ones driving it.

Maybe one day they'll even realize that while they were so busy driving on "their road" everyone else was busy keeping up the infrstructure.

Answer 14

what constitutes a strong woman these days...

feminism doesn't equate to strength just stupidity...

physical strength and ability to provide for thouself

Answer 15

Some people are still under the assumption that a woman's place is in the home, pregnant and barefoot.

Answer 16

Jealousy!!

Answer 17

If what Ryde On or Craig1 says is true about strong women being narcissists and brash, I wonder if these women are patterning what it means to be strong from male behavior = narcissist behavior- needing to be the center of attention, avoiding responsibility, talking about themselves, not listening to others, entitlement issues, not caring, projecting onto others. etc....