Has sexism had an effect on this contest? Of course. Has it had a divisive effect? Some. Has it had a decisive effect? Not clear.

Why is it being pushed -- it's obviously a coordinated push-- right now? Also not clear.

Sure, people should speak out against sexism. But excuse me if I don't think that's the primary motivation here.

and I really hope people talk about it seriously.

we'll see.

War and warmongering and ivading Iran and olbliterating them is not an appropriate issue for MSM media war whores to discuss in this presidential campaign.

Yeah, it's all about what is betwixt that candidates thighs.

More stupid evil journalsim.

...when I read this quote from her:

"it's been really not worthy of the seriousness of the campaign and the historical nature of the two candidacies we have here"

...I can't help but think the same thing about the tone, tenor, and content of her own campaign. She has made history, but she could have made a lot more, and her own campaign turned into the same cheap, fear-mongering, pushing-the-boundaries-of-civility affair that so many typical men's campaigns devolve into. She could have taken a truly enlightened approach to campaigning, but instead she seems to have sold herself out to play the boys' game in the boys' way.

That's a whole separate discussion, of course--what is an acceptable approach for women to take to achieve success at high levels in society--but I want more from any candidate, regardless of whether it's a woman.

I've said it before--I'm ready and eager to vote for a woman president, as I've voted in the past for women in every office up to that level. That's a history-making prospect that's incredibly exciting. And if Clinton was the nominee, I'd have voted for her in the general election. But Clinton sold out everything that could have made her special, and another candidate inspired me, and that's why I didn't vote for her in the primary, and I feel good about that vote.

In other words, there's definitely misogyny in the media, in politics, in the corporate world, and in the population at large, but I think what has caused Clinton to fall short is that at the end of the day, she showed herself in this campaign to be just another politician.

Now the question is, who will pick up the torch and take it to the next level?

Ok, so she can't win and she pulls out the sexism card.

Desperate? Yes.

Could sexism play a part in her not winning? Well, she is a woman. Potentially, yes. I'm sure there are people out there that will not under any circumstance vote for a woman president.

It's also possible that people just don't like her. Is that sexist? As a matter of fact, isn't it sexist to start lobbing the sexist grenade around now that her campaign looks like it's on its last legs? Uh huh. Yep.

get out of the campaign.

And stop the whining.

For all of her accomplishments --- whatever they actually may be --- Hillary has not been able to develop a force of character to transcend her circumstances. She is a political animal to the core who lacks real conviction. I would wager that she herself doesn't buy this latest battle cry of sexism; she's just playing the next card in the deck. The fact that not only is she harming the Democratic party but now also the feminist movement means nothing to her. This is all so sadly, shall we say, Clintonian.

Well, I'm delighted that Hillary has called out the sexism in this campaign. But Sarah, you left out the sentence before her quote:

"Later, when asked if she thinks this campaign has been racist, she says she does not. And she circles back to the sexism."

That's just ridiculous. Seriously.

All I can say is, thank goodness that we are most likely running the male candidate in this race, since the commonality of sexism in this country has shown us that there are simply those folks who will never vote for a woman no matter how experienced and qualified she may be.

Yep, it's a good thing that we dodged that bullet. I mean sure it's a crapy way to win, but we wouldn't want to run a candidate who is simply unelectable given the tenor of this country.

I likewise hope, that the superdelegates understand how unelectable Senator Clinton is due to her status as woman and use their great wisdom to throw their support behind the popular vote, and delegate winner (no doubt in large part because we are so very very sexist) Barak Obama. Afterall, we need to make sure we win this election, and given the level of sexism that exists in this country, can we really afford not to run a man?

But wasn't she saying how she is winning the "hard working White vote"? I guess she means that's its Blacks and lazy Whites that are sexists.

Why she is despicable and why I felt I should NEVER in a million years vote for her.

HRC comes from a culture where excuses become the reality.

Never mind HER shortcomings, it is always something ELSE outside of this.

So be it. I am ALREADY sick to death of the excuse making.

And EVERY ADDITIONAL article written bitching that everyone hates women in power is only digging a deeper trench for feminism. Never mind Golda Meir, Thatcher, Merkel and the dozens of OTHER powerful females who do not make SNIVELLY excuses to excuse why nobody likes their policies.

Yes, Hillary has faced some disrespectful comments, some with seixst overtones. I think that Hillary has played a false hand though. There have been no sexist comments that come close to Geraldine ferraro's heinous accusation that Obama has only gotten to his position because he is a black man. Totally outrageous, and unlike the comments thrown by people like Chris Matthews, blatantly a racial remark.

Yes, sexism is much more tolerated in this country than racism. There may be people out there calling Sen. Obama all the worst racial epithets we have (there almost certainly are, we all know it), but they're not shouting them in his face at campaign rallies. I hadn't heard about the guy yelling "Iron my shirt" at Sen. Clinton, but I'm sure if some yahoo had yelled at Sen. Obama to "Fry me some chicken", it would have been covered. The tastless anti-Hillary t-shirts covered in Broadsheet were indefensible, but similarly styled shirts playing on Barack's race would have been much more loudly protested. Racism has been driven underground (or at least behind closed doors) in this country, but many sexist sentiments are still expressed out loud, in public, even here in these comments.

We as a country need to focus on these types of misogyny, but I don't know if the media's failure to tackle the issue during a presidential campaign is evidence of their own sexism. I haven't seen many explicit instances of sexism in the coverage, most amounted to the equivalent of the instances when race has arisen in the campaign- not in clearly stated hate speech, but in instances where the implications of what was said led one to think they may have been playing along the lines of something.

Sen. Clinton's always performed best when she was perceived to be under attack. If the media had paid more attention to the sexism she has confronted, the result of the campaign may have been more to her liking, which is, I think, why she's bringing this up now.