Vanity Fair’s New Year’s Resolution Suggestions for Hillary Clinton Are Sexist AF

Maybe it’s time for Hillary Clinton to take up a new hobby in 2018 pic.twitter.com/sbE78rA5At

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 23, 2017

Vanity Fair’s “The Hive” published an attempt at comedy in the form of a video suggesting some New Year’s resolutions for Hillary Clinton. The thing about comedy, though, is just calling it that doesn’t guarantee it will actually be funny, or that it will be worth putting out into the world.

Here’s what Vanity Fair thinks Hillary Clinton, the Former Secretary of State and the first female presidential candidate nominee for a major party, should take up in the new year.

• Work on the sequel to What Happened. Suggested title: What the Hell Happened. (… No, really, is there a joke in there?)
• Get someone to program her iPhone autofill “so that typing in F doesn’t become ‘form exploratory committee for 2020.'”
• Teach a class on alternate nostril breathing. Because she mentioned that one time in an interview.
• Hike more in the woods. (“How else are you going to meet more unsuspecting hikers?”)
• Take up a new hobby. “Volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy, literally anything that will keep [her] from running again.”
• Put away her James Comey voodoo doll. Because “it’s time to move on.”

In what world is Hillary Clinton not moving on? She’s not the one making inane videos. She’s doing the same things pretty much every former candidate has done in her position: write a book, work on her foundation, and field speculation over whether she’ll run again.

So why is no one telling Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden to take up fucking knitting?

https://twitter.com/Selena_Adera/status/945724832297246720

Right? Or any of the other many men who’ve lost – actually lost, and continue(d) to court the public eye. Woman pres cand (who won 2nd highest pop vote in US history despite all the obstacles) can’t write a book regarding one of the most dysfunctional general election years ever.

— Anoosh Luby (@AnooshMCL) December 26, 2017

Whatever you think of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman who has dedicated her entire adult life to politics for better and worse, this is just extremely sexist.

— Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) December 26, 2017

Vanity Fair tl;dr: Six young white people holding glasses of champagne would like Hillary Clinton to abandon her life's work and platform and just shut up. Good to know. https://t.co/cELDKdVmYd

— Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) December 26, 2017

And again, these Vanity Fair editors can’t even use the “it’s just a joke” defense. Because nothing in that video is anything close to funny.

https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/945773401544773632

The hashtag #CancelVanityFair is currently trending on Twitter.

So @VanityFair decided that the best way to end 2017 was to take a repulsive cheap shot at @HillaryClinton, one of the most accomplished women in the history of the United States.

Now #CancelVanityFair is moving.

— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017

HEY @VanityFair still think @HillaryClinton needs to take up knitting?
She is not only the most admired woman in the WORLD for the 16th year in a row. She has won 22 times total more than any man or woman in the history of the world! #CancelVanityFair #StillWithHer https://t.co/bMQJ7fz0xe

— Tom D'Angora (he/him) #HarrisWalz2024 (@TomDangora) December 27, 2017

Hey, @VanityFair and @VFHIVE!

You know what my autofill on Twitter finishes off for me?#CancelVanityFair

— Steven Senski 🇺🇦 🌈 🥥🌴 (@StevenSenski) December 27, 2017

In short:

https://twitter.com/PattyArquette/status/945812980939161600

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