Maudlin Optimism for Hillary

[susankh4]

The root origins of the word 'Maudlin" are as such:

""The term comes from the stock character of Mary Magdalene in medieval morality plays, where she is portrayed as histrionically weepy. The name Magdalene in the Oxford college of that name is pronounced "maudlin." ""

I never really thought about it but... wow! What a feminist analysis could be done of THAT! Take a biblical heroine and reduce her to a one dimensional, weeping, penitant heap. Make a "stock character" of her. Then reduce her to a word: "Maudlin." Further... use the word to disparage women's grief and pain. Geesh.

I did a little search and found that the critics do not know if Frida Kahlo, for instance, was a "maudlin victim" type or not:
www.nytimes.com/specials/m.../kahlo.html
WTF? Kahlo a "victim?" How disparaging. I really think not.

Likewise, despite the condescension of the Obamaphiles in the GDP, Hillary and her followers are NOT playing the victim. We may be expressing our outrage at the way Sen. Clinton has been treated... by the MSM and the likes of Ted Kennedy. But, no, we won't play the "victim" because there is too much work to do!

How the heck did weeping in the "maudlin" tradition become associated with victimhood at all? Don't men (sorry for the broad brush, guys) know that it is therapeutic to show emotion? To weep? To rage? Is anyone *that* emotionally impaired.... as to disparage the act of weeping as somehow "playing the victim."

Bah! I am personally so goddamn tired of feminism being somehow twisted into a form of "victimhood" I could puke.

Now here is an unusual reclamation of the word "maudlin":

"21] While I hate to lapse into *maudlin optimism* I am nonetheless concerned with what will become of ..... "
From: www.genders.org/g33/g33_mccallum.html

"Maudlin optimism?" What is that? Is that the concept that we weep in order to release ... to forgive ... to heal ... and to move forward? I owe this much to Senator Clinton.... to weep, to rage, to be angry and THEN to move forward with her.

We and she have much work to do in this world! And, while the rest of the Democratic party thinks it "can" we, indeed "will." As my avatar once said: "Failure is impossible!"

OK now... I have made a few posts in the GDP. Tried to insert some reasoning on NARAL, a Unity Ticket, and West Virginia hate.... Now I need to bail out of here and get on with my REAL work, before I get any angrier.

Have a great day, all you Hill supporters!


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