So we all are just too stiff to see the joke? They really need to work on their humor writing.

It didn't strike me as she was serious. I guess I was right.

So, women are the only ones using their brains to pick their candidate instead of just automatically voting for the person who looks like themselves?

If a humor piece outrages people (regular readers, at that), it has missed the mark.

Black voters of all socioeconomic classes are voting for the black candidate. Men are voting for the male candidate regardless of race or class ... women are split every way they can be. They're the only voting bloc not voting their bloc.

She's kinda picking and choosing her voting blocs there.

Wow. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Big Sven? ECB?

From the second article:

For weeks now, online and on cable news channels, almost anyone who expresses criticism of Obama or support for Clinton has elicited a firestorm of disapproval. Obama's scores of defenders -- "Obamabots," they're called -- immediately recite the anti-Clinton litany: Billary, Monica Lewinsky, Hillary's Iraq war vote, identity politics. Well-regarded activists such as Planned Parenthood's Feldt or successful writers such as Tina Fey who support Clinton are excoriated as worthless pieces of nonsense. [...] The commentary can feel like something close to intimidation, a gantlet of verbal punishment meted out to anyone who dares to disagree.

Bullshit it was a joke. That woman has a long history of writing anti-feminist nonsense. She blamed feminists for the alleged ugliness and surliness of flight attendants. My cousin is a flight attendant, and while she may be a bitch, she's also smokin' hot.

Writing tongue in cheek is one way to assure it will go over the head of feminists like EB et al, as this one surely did (see earlier shitstorm). If there's one thing fems don't have, in addition to sex appeal, it's a sense of humor.

I'll say it again: any study, ANY survey result that claims people vote a certain way based on race or class or gender is bullshit.

Also, #8, you're a dickhead. Fuck off and die.

It's like an Internet argument, but in print. As soon as the criticism comes out, the original arguer claims that she did it all for laughs...

Reading the online comments at WaPo (yes, that was me on there too) most people don't buy this lame excuse.

But hey, that's just reality talking.

Dear Greg: Name calling, death threat, no actual thought. Ever think of applying for a Stranger writer's job?

@8... have you read any of the author's earlier work? The theme of this most recent article is pretty much in keeping with many of her other pieces. Unless practically her entire body of work to date has been an unacknowledged joke, I'm pretty sure this article was not "tongue-in-cheek."

So all those black men who vote for Hilary are what then?