What’s the chance that Hillary Clinton will come under fire for apparently using the outdated idea of a gender binary as a guide for populating her cabinet? Multiple news sources are reporting that Clinton is making plans for a cabinet that is 50 percent male and 50 percent female, as if such definitions held any meaning in 2016.
Hillary Clinton intends to fill half of her Cabinet with women https://t.co/CHUwqhPqla pic.twitter.com/dTqww44wKq
— Jezebel (@Jezebel) July 4, 2016
If Hillary wins, she will ensure half her cabinet members are women. https://t.co/MizZEXqwYe
— Rebecca LeBard (@rlebard) July 4, 2016
Hold on a second — if it’s Hillary Clinton we’re talking about here, the only Ensure we’re counting on is the nutrition drink.
what Hillary "intends" is of no interest. She is a corrupt,insincere, morally vacant, lying POS–the poster child for corruption.
— DangergirlHope (@DangergirlHope) July 4, 2016
Nowhere does the New York Times provide a guarantee that Clinton will follow through on her plan, which reportedly includes a cabinet wish list with a couple of high profile names who have yet to commit to anything, let alone be asked.
https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/749659464811237376
Before Clinton perhaps maybe asks Tim Cook to become the first openly gay cabinet secretary, she’d better weigh her options: would it serve her better to have an openly gay man or save that slot for another woman? Why not have all women? It takes a village!
Half women cabinet? Let's aim for an all women cabinet! And the rise of the matriarchy. https://t.co/MJGgVQ9nzr
— Turkey Camboooooo (@CozyJamble) July 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/HeidiLiFeldman/status/750067563363639296
On the one hand, this is LONG overdue. On the other, I find her appeal to gender equality often is used to mask problematic policy
— Theo Kogod (@TKogod) July 4, 2016
Speaking of problematic, the New York Times also includes in President Hillary Clinton’s plan for her first 100 days a “beer summit” (well, drinks of some sort) with Republicans — the same people she named in October’s Democrat debate as the enemy she’s most “proud” of having made.
So Clinton's plan as president is to lure Republicans into compromise by getting them drunk? https://t.co/1C1PS0oczQ pic.twitter.com/IibKYeFkuQ
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 3, 2016
it's crazy but it just might work.
— Mary Beth Schneider (@marybschneider) July 3, 2016
Bleary-eyed Paul Ryan rolls out of bed, sees headline, "GOP Agrees To Infrastructure Plan," asks, "What did I do?"
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 3, 2016