The feminist movement has a much longer way to go.

disclosure: I don't like Clinton for her politics, but I think she may be going to go down because of her gender

a lot of women who consider themselves feminists are offended by the way hillary has leveraged her gender whenever it is politically expedient to do so, especially when making excuses for what has been a really shabby campaign. it might earn hillary sympathy, but it certainly doesn't help the feminist movement very much. but to be fair, joan crawford analogies don't help dowd get her point across any better either.

Just my guess.

Yup. A campaign busting out the gender card to distract from the fact they are loosing. Why talk about Hillary and her poorly run campaign when we can all debate gender issues instead*.

There is a time and a place to play the gender or race card, but playing it during a campaign is a desperate distraction and not an attempt to start a healthy debate.

* And I almost bit their troll before I wrote this comment. Hillary is basically asking for a handicap bonus because she is female in the same way females sometimes argue the shouldn't get the same tests when trying to be, say, a firefighter or cop. If you think that is a legit card to play during an election, go ahead and vote for her. I personally think the issue needs discussion but quite frankly bringing into play during your campaign is a desperate distraction and not an attempt to start a national discussion about gender equality.

So because she's a woman she may not be doing well? You admit to a personal gender bias? Pfft, women, always being held down by the fact that they're women.

If McCain were a woman you'd surely argue he (she) would be losing because of his (her) gender, even if you didn't like his (her) politics. Come on...

We always notice the things that upset us more than the things that don't upset us - and blogs magnify that, since they tend to be filled with the interesting/upsetting linked news, rather than the mundane/boring news.

Can you imagine blogging about retail markups for electricity, for example? Boooooring.

Yeah. That'd be hawt.

Take some already.