You can do anything and everything, and it doesn’t matter: The word “bitch,” more than almost any other, will cling to the back of your smart pantsuits forever. The fact that “bitch” has become both an epithet and an honorific for Mrs. Clinton has turned out to be one of the least weird things about this election year. “How do we beat the bitch?” a woman asked at a John McCain rally in 2007, to an eruption of applause. It’s not just that “Bitches get stuff done,” as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler pointed out in a hilarious defense of Mrs. Clinton back in 2008. As one of the memes Mrs. Clinton inspires might put it, we need a bitch who can do both.

Source: New York Times September 10, 2016 18:22 UTC