feminity and hillary clinton

Society gives us definitions for how we are supposed to be within our gender.Women are supposed to be weak, unintelligent, dependent.
While we discussed this in class, one example came to my mind, Hillary Clinton.

With the big announcement of the democratic candidate for the election of 2008 looming over our heads me and my friends sat at my lunch table discussing Clinton. When she got brought up I rolled my eyes. For some reason I couldn't stand her, and I never really understood why until now.

Unlike the sterotypical women, Clinton is strong, independent, and intelligent, and now I think subconciously that may have bothered me.

At first I was disgusted at the list shown on the overhead, in my mind I hought "WHO WROTE THIS??? SOME SEXSIST PIG!?" But then I realized how many women do fit into this stereotype, and at some points I admit that I do too. I have seen through the media (books, television, movies...) that women are often portrayed like this, and the fact that Clinton isn't made me uncomfortable because of how much it deviated from the social norms and the definitions for women in society that I was used to.