Letters to the Editor
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With Hillary Clinton, you have admit there is a little Chicken Egg questions with regard to Misogyny.
Yes people took the low road with her, a lot! But was that low road taken because she was a woman, or because she was Hillary Clinton and carried a great deal of Dragon Lady baggage with her from the start.
It doesn't excuse the low road, but it takes some of the sting off it.
People have used colorfull discriptives of Hillary Clinton, but colorfull discriptives have been used for George Bush, and Al Gore, and every politician of all stripes genders and orientations.
That uniquely feminine colloquialisms were used for Senator Clinton has about as much to do with her being a woman as uniquely male colloquialisms used against male candidates. People may have called her a B, but people call the president (and the VP) a D on a regular basis (infact the Daily Show has a running gag on the subject).
So yes, there is a lingering highschool mentality in our society, but we are also (as Senator Clinton has shown us) a rather racist society as well, and yet Barak Obama has risen largly above it to inspire people. So perhaps there is something to think about in that as well.