Bill Maher: I’m not trying to be sexist here, but I’m just saying that women try a lot of different tacks when they’re in arguments.
Harry Shearer: Do you remember the website in the 90s , where it was all her different hairstyles?
Maher: Well, hairstyles.
Harry Shearer: Yes, but now there’s going to be a website with all her different personalities.
Maher: Well, we made a montage, actually. Just to show you that, just — I’m not being sexist — I’m just saying that men, when we argue, we’re kind of a one-trick pony, we try our one thing, and then we . . . sulk when we don’t get our way.
[Plays a clip of Hillary, misty-eyed at a campaign event]
Maher: But look at Hillary Clinton. Because the first thing a woman does, of course, is cry. [Affecting a dramatic, teary voice] “I just want to be happy. Why can’t you just love me?”
Maher: And then they go to sweet talking.
[Plays a clip of Hillary complimenting Obama at a recent debate]
Maher: “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me! And you look so handsome in that tie!”
[Plays a clip of Hillary saying “shame on you” about Obama’s “Harry and Louise” brochure]
Maher: And then they throw an anger fit totally unrelated to anything. “Stay home and watch the game. See if I care.”
[Plays a clip of Hillary mocking Obama’s soaring rhetoric]
Maher: And when it doesn’t work, they bring out the sarcasm. “Oh, I’m just a woman, I couldn’t possibly understand the issues like you could.” Don’t write me, please ladies, don’t write me.
Maybe this was parody? If so, Hitch did not get that joke:
Christopher Hitchens: And then if you say “whine, whine, whine,” they say that’s sexist.
All righty then. Nice work there Bill.
