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"  Photo: AFP In the picture above, Hillary Clinton&amp;#039;s taking a selfie with Meryl Streep. But lest you think Clinton is consumed with superficial things like that, think again. In a one-on-one interview with Diane Sawyer that aired on ABC last night, Clinton set the record straight, speaking out against the media&amp;#039;s sexist fixation on her appearance rather than her effectiveness as a politician: &amp;quot;When you&amp;#039;re in the spotlight as a woman, you know you&amp;#039;re being judged constantly,&amp;quot; Clinton told Sawyer. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just never-ending,&amp;quot; she lamented, calling out the ridiculous amount of scrutiny she faces for everything from her outfits to her hairstyles\u2014something male politicians don&amp;#039;t have to deal with on nearly the same level. Clinton even joked that she should&amp;#039;ve called her new memoir (Hard Choices, out today), The Scrunchie Chronicles: 112 Countries and It&amp;#039;s Still All About My Hair, as if that&amp;#039;s her most salient legacy.  Photo: AFP Was she being too self-pitying or dramatic? Probably not. Sawyer flashed back to a moment from 2007 during the Presidential debates, where former Senator John Edwards, when asked what he thought about Clinton, replied, &amp;quot;I admire what Senator Clinton has done for America, what her husband did for America,&amp;quot; before giving her outfit the once over and adding, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not sure about that coat.&amp;quot; Senator Barack Obama then jumped in to further discuss Clinton&amp;#039;s wardrobe choice\u2014all during the precious moments of a nationally televised debate. The fact that that actually happened is just, well, crazy.  Photo: AFP But Clinton&amp;#039;s reaction was to not let it get the best of her. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m done with that. I mean, I&amp;#039;m just done,&amp;quot; she told Sawyer. That&amp;#039;s why, while serving as Secretary of State and spending months &amp;quot;getting [her] hair done every day, often in different places around the world,&amp;quot; Clinton threw in the towel, and decided to just let her hair grow long and wear it in a ponytail (yes, with those hotly contested scrunchies). In that respect, if she didn&amp;#039;t want her memoir to be focused on her political experiences as Secretary of State, The Scrunchie Chronicles: 112 Countries and It&amp;#039;s Still All About My Hair could have been a really good choice for telling another side of her story: What a point it would have made about the media&amp;#039;s gender-biased representations of female politicians and sexism in general in this country. Related: At the Pinnacle of Hillary Clinton&amp;#039;s Career Related: Hillary Clinton Jokes About Scrunchie Memoir "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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