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On the subject of female ambition being distasteful that's definitely a pervasive prejudice, but I think it also bares looking at why male ambition is conversely so worshiped. It's an extremely American trait on display. There are cultures that see ambition as a character flaw, like read any Voltaire to see the French attitude towards men who try too hard or believe too fervently, or Cervantes to see the same in Spanish culture. Ambitious people are, in a way, prideful and greedy. But in the United States we're taught from the start that ambition is only good (along with pride and greed, really) when it's attached to a Y Chromosome. Your worth as a man is tied directly to how much you get done during your time on Earth, and whether you interpret that as making the most money you can in the stock market or building the max number of structures you can or even donating the most man-hours to charity; whatever you do, do as much of it as you possibly can and always strive for greatness or you're coming up short. I think that's a big part of the stigma, that American men are deeply terrified by the prospect of failing at their over-inflated goals, and women are a classic, time-tested choice for someone to step on as the men feel themselves slipping. Meanwhile American Feminism fails to solve anything by telling women they're "allowed" to be just like American Men; irrational, self-absorbed and doomed to exhaustion. Being one's self instead of a social archetype is not acceptable for anybody, but it's especially unacceptable for women. On the subject of why people hate Hillary, her party did not do her any favors by trying to rig the convention. But really it's what other posters have already pointed out, the media machine runs on mud and hatred and "hate woman" is a prehistoric schtick that still sells ad space.
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