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Joanne Barr, 54, has never wanted attention. She has only everwanted a quiet life, and for a long time, what she had in Williamsport, a mountainous town in Central Pennsylvania, was just that. She never thought there would be a time when people would know her story. But then again, she never thought Donald Trump would be president, and when that happened, everything changed.

Last month, Barr, a lifelong Republican, went to the Womens March on Washington, allowed The Washington Post to accompany herand returned to Williamsport, where she found a mailbox that was soon filling with letters from all over the country and world. So much mail, she said. And for someone who doesnt want to be in the spotlight. Its been overwhelming, but I didnt realize there were so many wonderful, nice people.

[Shes 54, white, rural and a lifelong Republican. Why is she protesting Donald Trump?]

One day late last month, she went to the mailbox again and collected more letters, one of which bore a New York address. Thinking it was just another letter like the others, she absent-mindedly opened it. Then she saw the letterhead: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

While I know that we are disappointed and heartbroken by the outcome of the election, I am heartened to know that the experience of this campaign has been empowering for you, the letter read. Never forget that you are powerful and valuable, and that one person can make a difference.

Clinton has offered words of encouragement via Twitter to her supporters and on Monday recordeda surprise video for a conference focusing on womens leadership, but otherwise has kept a fairly low profile since her November loss.

Barr took the letter into a hardware store she manages, framed the photo, and hungit in her house, someplace where I can look at it every morning to give me the inspiration I need to keep on fighting for what I feel is right, she said. Its only one of many ways in which she says the election has emboldened her. She has joined the League of Womens Voters, and, for the first time on Monday night,attended a meeting for the Lycoming County Progressives.

Hundreds of thousands of activists descended on downtown Washington for a rally and march, the day after President Donald Trump took office. The sheer number of attendees caused confusion and complicated logistics. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)

She went by herself.

It was pretty scary at first, she said. But she soon felt at ease.

We just talked about different issues and trying to see what we can do, she said. Its nice to talk to people with the same ideas that I have.

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The touching letter Hillary Clinton sent this lifelong Republican protesting Donald Trump - Washington Post

They may never walk on the Oval Office carpet, but Hillary Clinton is getting a pair of pumps named in her honor.

Pop star Katy Perrys forthcoming foray into footwear will honor, among others, the former secretary of state, People magazinereported Wednesday.

Launching on Feb. 16, Katy Perry Collections will also include a sparkly multicolored sneaker designed in honor of the Girls creator and actress Lena Dunham.

The Hillary, a $139 shoe that appears to be rose gold in color, features a clear heel that contains stars adding a a pep in her step the singer says.

Ive been courting this idea for several years, Ms. Perry, who campaigned for Mrs. Clinton and performed at the Democratic convention in 2016, told People magazine. For half my career, people have been asking me when Im getting into fashion. Its always been simmering under the surface, but I wanted to do it the right way and be the real creative contributor. This is something that Ive created from the bottom up.

Ms. Perry dedicated the $129 Lena sneaker to Ms. Dunham, the coolest tomboy she knows who embraces everything and she isnt afraid to be who she is, People reported.

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Hillary Clinton to be honored by pop star Katy Perry with high-heel shoe design - Washington Times

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In a new video produced ahead of the 2017 Makers Conference an invitation-only feminist leadership retreat held in California Hillary Clinton boosted the feminist movement with a rallying call for girls and women to be the glass-ceiling breakers of the future.

Despite all the challenges we face, I remain convinced that yes, the future is female, Clinton said. Just look at the amazing energy we saw last month as women organised a march that galvanised millions of people all over our country and across the world.

So why cant the future be male? Answer: because todays men are under a full frontal assault by feminists like Clinton who are doing their utmost to erase the concept of masculinity and maleness.

When male babies grow into little boys, they cannot act like boys, dress like boys or feel like boys because feminists have stamped the very concept of masculinity with the word toxic and misogynistic all over it. Because of the conditioning they grow up with in the public education system and the dinosaur media, it is little wonder that boys grow up to be so effeminate, emasculated and disempowered. This misandrous assault is beyond nauseating to say the least.

The late Phyllis Schlafly, the famous anti-feminist campaigner said: If man is targeted as the enemy, and the ultimate goal of womens liberation is independence from men and the avoidance of pregnancy and its consequences, then lesbianism is logically the highest form in the ritual of womens liberation.

Quite ironically the future wont be enduringly female, because males are required to produce babies (regardless whether naturally or through IVF) and if feminists are lesbians (which many of the militant ones are), then baby production is out of the picture totally.

Schlafly wrote: There is a war on men, and [feminists] are very open about it. They dont conceal it; they brag about it. You read all of their material theyre always saying they want to abolish the patriarchy. They said that husbands are not necessary in a marriage, theyre not necessary in raising children, she said.

Yet another irony is that genuinely oppressive patriarchy really only exists in countries that practice fundamental Islam. Its not a major problem in the West. The Koran commands wife-beating, female genital mutilation and honour killings as part of standard Islamic practice. To the intelligent individual, this is inarguably oppressive but to the feminist, criticising a hateful ideology such as Islam is racist and xenophobic. Yet they want to protest a non-existent oppressive patriarchy in the West. Go figure

Instead of pushing for jobs to be filled based on experience, knowledge and aptitude, female job applicants are always given priority whether they have the necessary skills or not as a bold and defiant statement to men that women can do it. You know, #GirlPower

Lets not forget that Hillary campaigned for the presidency using the non-sensical line vote for me because Im a woman a totally irrelevant credential for the job.

As for wages, equal wages should be dished out to those who can produce equal work. Quite simple, really.

Perhaps the cutting edge of the feminist goal is the push for women in military combat to force us into an androgynous society. Schlafly once again has some wise insight: The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars. The goal of feminists however, is to impose a mindless equality, regardless of how many people it hurts. She continues, every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Schlafly said the feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. These feminists create their own problems which ultimately stems from their discontent of the wonderful and valuable roles that God has designated them. Women should see those roles as not somehow oppressive or demeaning, but valuable, beautiful ways to complement their male counterparts.

To quote Schlafly one last time, Feminism has nothing at all to do with being feminine. Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfilment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

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Hillary Clinton Spearheads War On Men - Daily Caller

Hillary Rodham Clinton has had an odd career for a feminist icon.

Her main occupation has consisted of being the long-suffering wife of a powerful man, infamous for treating subordinate women as disposable conveniences, who abused her ruthlessly and humiliated her publicly. In exchange for standing by her man, she was given an orphaned Senate seat in New York, where she did not live, and two shots at the presidency, which she lost to an unknown back-bencher from Chicago in 2008 and to a reality-television host in 2016.

Margaret Thatcher she isnt.

She is back to her habitual form of paid work: Making speeches that are so vague as to be nearly content-free, her famous face and bland, almost affectless mode of speech serving as a kind of blank screen onto which those gathered can project their fantasies about having been present for Something Very Important.

Whatever that might be.

This weeks speech was for the MAKERS conference, a project of AOL, which still exists. MAKERS is a collection of web videos about famous women, featuring exactly the sort of women youd imagine appealing to mid-level executives of AOL, which still exists: Lena Dunham, Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, Lilly Singh. The women of the world were, one assumes, simply crying out for well-lighted videos of humorless American (Miss Singh is Canadian, i.e., American Lite) multimillionaires repeating the most tedious banalities imaginable. And so they now have them, courtesy of AOL, which still exists.

Mrs. Clintons remarks were remarkable for one line:

The future is female.

That line caught the attention of Le Figaro, which breathlessly headlined a report: Hillary Clinton: Oui, lavenir est fminin! It is likely that the editors at Le Figaro are better-read than Mrs. Clinton is and recognized the sentiment from the contemporary French novelist Michel Houellebecq, who used the line in his dystopian novel The Elementary Particles. Houellebecq, an aging hedonistic intellectual who writes very sad novels about aging hedonistic intellectuals, imagined a future in which sexual rivalry and unhappiness between the sexes both have been abolished with a single master-stroke: the abolition of the human race and its replacement by an engineered successor species that reproduces asexually and is entirely female.

Perhaps that is not what Mrs. Clinton has in mind.

Houellebecq was probably having some fun with the declaration of the poet Louis Aragon that la femme est lavenir de lhomme, woman is the future of man. Aragons expression has made several other appearances: Jean Ferrat sang it, and Hong Sang-soo used it as a film title. Houellebecqs version was rendered The Future Is Feminine in the English translation rather than the splashier and much more commercial-sounding The Future Is Female (an error in judgment, I think; it is intended to be a commercial-sounding slogan), but the idea is the same. In a more recent novel, Submission, Houellebecq solves the same problem in a different way: a near-future France knuckles under to Islam, and aging hedonistic intellectuals, exploiting the fact that professors in France enjoy a much, much higher social status than they do in the United States, go in enthusiastically for polygamy and arranged marriage.

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In the English-speaking world, The Future Is Female has had a different sort of career, having been taken up as the motto of lesbian separatists in the 1970s and then reborn as a popular T-shirt in recent years which, Americans being Americans, has given rise to litigation about who owns that daft phrase.

My bet is that Mrs. Clinton took the line from the T-shirt, or rather that one of her minions did. (Speechwriter for Mrs. Clinton must currently be the saddest job in all politics.) A T-shirt is about as deep as she goes. Like Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton likes to talk about the importance of art (or the arts, as such people habitually put it) and culture and the like but does not seem to have read very many serious books in the past 40 years or so, or to have thought very seriously about anything she has read. Progressives enjoy the life of the mind a great deal...in theory. Michael Tracey of The Young Turks, one of those predictable lefty types who like to go on about how much they love science and how deeply they care about the environment, took to Twitter earlier this week to ask for help in identifying an exotic bird he encountered in Texas City. It was a pelican.

Darwin, yes; Audubon, not so much.

I suppose it is just barely possible that Mrs. Clinton used The Future Is Female in tribute to radical feminists in the Age of Nixon, when she was first getting her real start in politics, and goodness knows that all those years of enduring marriage to Bill Clinton must fill one with a certain aspirational longing vis--vis the whole touchy subject of lesbian separatism. That she has been thinking about the works of Michel Houellebecq and the funny professional problem of how one would go about marketing human extinction is even more unlikely. (Though if ever there was a really convincing ad campaign for human extinction, it was Mrs. Clintons 2016 presidential effort.)

There are great works of literature that have some bearing upon the public career of Hillary Rodham Clinton (you would not believe how many performances of Macbeth I have seen in recent years), but she isnt reading contemporary French novels in her spare time, even in translation. (Like President Trump and President Obama, but unlike the current Mrs. Trump and either of the Presidents Bush, Mrs. Clinton, purportedly the most intellectually accomplished woman of her generation, does not know a foreign language. Melania Trump speaks five languages.) Mrs. Clinton is in fact a familiar political type, whose intense and lifelong focus on the pursuit and maintenance of that pettiest and most ephemeral of things political power has left her intellectually stunted, which is obvious to anyone who ever has heard her speak. No doubt she already is planning her 2020 campaign, without anyone around who cares enough to explain to her why this is absurd. She is, in truth, a tragic figure.

Bereft of anything like an original thought, she tends to repeat dopey slogans like The Future Is Female, without giving much thought to what they mean.

Which, in this case, is nothing.

Kevin D. Williamson is National Reviews roving correspondent.

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Mrs. Clinton Is Not the Future - National Review

Feb. 7, 2017, 2:16 p.m.

Monday night's MAKERSwomen's empowerment conference in Rancho Palos Verdeskicked off with a surprise video statement by Hillary Clinton that elicited a huge roar from the crowd.

"Despite all the challenges we face, I remain convinced that yes, the future is female,"Clinton said in her first recorded statement since the inauguration of Donald Trump and women's marches the next day.

The conference, which continues through Wednesday and is being live-streamed online , is bringingtogether powerful women at the height of their powers.ActressOctavia Spencer and activist Gloria Steinemkicked off the conference with a keynote conversation about Spencer's movie "Hidden Figures," and diversity in storytelling on Monday night. (And Steinem spoke exclusively to The Times about the election and the challenges ahead.)

But while Spencer and Steinem garnered a standing ovation and resounding applause, Clinton's recorded statement prompted theloudest cheers of the night.

"Remember, you are the heroes and history makers, the glass ceiling breakers of the future," Clinton said in the video. "As I've said before, I'll say again: Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world."

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