Hillary Clinton Embraces Trump's Snide, Sniffy Commentary That She's 'Nasty'

In Debate, Hillary Clinton's Clarion Call for Women Thrills Many The New York Times

In the third presidential debate, Hillary Clinton dispensed with Democrats’ longstanding caveat that the procedure of abortion should be rare, and -- instead -- gave a fierce defense of women’s right to control our own bodies without government interference.

It was an opportunity for Hillary Clinton to speak to a new generation of younger women — and to many young men, too — by assailing Donald Trump over sexual assault and harassment accusations, saying his dismissals of the allegations against him by multiple women showed that he “thinks belittling women makes him bigger.”

“He goes after their dignity, their self-worth,” Mrs. Clinton said, refusing to take her foot off the gas. “And I don’t think there is a woman anywhere who doesn’t know what that feels like.”

Then -- in a moment that political operatives could not engineer -- Donald Trump became her bullseye, falling down the rabbit hole of his uncontrollable narcissism.  The Republican candidate has been stripped naked metaphorically as a misogynist for all the world to see. Unable to control his anger, the petulant, injured ego Mr. Trump interjected, “What a nasty woman."

Overnight, Trump's insult became a battle cry for Clintonites and a gaggle of newcomers. “Nasty Woman” T-shirts began selling on the internet. Naral Pro-Choice America advertised “NastyWoman” stickers.

A New York City man quickly set up an expletive-laced “nasty women” website that redirected visitors to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign page. Streams of Janet Jackson’s 1986 hit “Nasty” increased 250 percent on Spotify after the debate, according to a Spotify spokesman. More than 8,000 people had taken up the phrase on Twitter by midafternoon, wielding it as a badge of honor.

"Nasty Woman" Hillary Clinton Is Horrified That Trump Won't Commit To Accepting Election Result AOC Politics

And as soon as the debate ended, Trump’s "nasty woman" insult morphed into an empowering phrase. The hashtag #NastyWomen began trending on Twitter. Someone has purchased the URLNastyWomenGetShitDone.com and set up a redirect to Clinton’s campaign website — perhaps as a sly, smirky remix of Saturday Night Live’s 2008 Weekend Update sketch about Clinton "Bitches Get Shit Done":

Hillary Clinton On the One Woman Who Inspires Her To Dare Harper's Bazaar US

In 1927, Hillary Clinton's mother was sent away to endure a "bleak" and motherless childhood at just 8 years old. Here, nearly 90 years later, the Democratic Presidential candidate reflects back on the hardships her mother saw, and how, in spite of this, she grew up to be "so loving"—a mother who raised her daughter to believe she could be anything she dreamed of, even President of the United States. Along the way, Clinton has inspired countless women around the world to dare to do the impossible, encouraging young visionaries to break—not just push—boundaries. The new generation of #WomenWhoDare are those who, like Clinton, refuse to conform. Read her exclusive essay for HarpersBazaar.com and see the rest of the 2016 Women Who Dare Issue below.