I know it’s wrong, but I can’t help but laugh.
SALEM, N.H. - Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign stop was interrupted on Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, “Iron my shirt!” during one the New York senator’s final appearances before New Hampshire voters cast primary ballots Tuesday.
Clinton, a former first lady running to become the nation’s first female president, laughed at the seemingly sexist protest that suggested a woman’s place is doing the laundry and not running the country.
“Ah, the remnants of sexism — alive and well,” Clinton said to applause in a school auditorium.
The two men were removed from the hall after raising a pair of signs that said, “iron my shirt!” They also shouted the same slogan.
“Can we turn the lights on? It’s awfully dark,” Clinton said, cueing the lights to come and police to come forward take the men away.
The overflow crowd burst into applause and some began shouting, “Iron my shirt” as the two were taken from the hall.
I’m reminded of this classic (and slightly profane) lampooning of feminist protests at the Augusta National Golf Tournament.
It’s not right. A woman’s place is not necessarily to be doing laundry for her family. A woman’s place is anywhere she wants it to be in the world, including ironing shirts if that’s what she wants. But still, I can’t help but laugh when the man-haters are confronted with it.
