Outstanding article. Very well written. Thank you.

I'm 37 years old and have been working in a male dominated role in corporate America for 15 years.

Everything that the author has noted rings very true to me.

I left college w/ my business degree very much believing that sexism was over as that's what I had been told and that I didn't experience it on the college campus.

It's not until you begin to progress through the ranks of a male dominated area of a company, start making a lot more money and/or decide to have a child that you realize sexism is very much alive and well but you just don't talk about it.

(the young Obamaworshiping women in their teens and twenties are just not qualified to determine if sexism is "so over.")

My support of Hillary Clinton started very logically. I didn't know her politically very well as a left-coaster. I was very impressed with her in the debates (best guy on the stage) and have an affinity for the Clinton years as my political coming of age. I'm a moderate democrat.

I have been quitely outraged at the sexism by both men and women toward Clinton in this election. It's unbelievable.

I loved the SNL skit by Tina Fey. Bitch is the New Black.

She says, "People think Hillary is a Bitch. You know what? She is!!! and So am I!!!"

At that moment, I thought...the next time someone says something even subtly sexist in nature about anybody/thing. I'm going to tell them that I'm that way too.

"If Hillary's a bitch then so am I."

(The only way this is effective is if of course, you are the farthest thing from a man-hating, bitch) :)

Smart, motivated, productive, successful, hard working, ambitious, attractive? Heck-ya, bring it on!

Thanks again for the article.

Hillary-4-All!

I just thought for a moment whether I would feel much different if Bill, through some technicality was getting a third shot at the presidency and duplicating his wife's behavior.

First off, would I disrespect Bill for making with the crocodile tears to somehow enhance his image or show people how much he cares? You better believe I would. Gender, I'm sure is made relevant by some element of my spinal cord or whatever reptilian part of the brain sparks kneejerk prejudice as it's not considered very manly or leader-like of any gender to cry in public when the focus of the entire planet is on you.

More importantly, however, it would disturb me to see this guy going to such extremes to convince me that his heart is really invested in what he's talking about. I know who Bill Clinton is. It's manifest in his actions just as who Hillary is is manifest in hers. That's what we're judging here, not who puts on the best performance. When Hillary's campaign began experimenting with this politics of image nonsense, it it started blowing up in her face. It seemed like every other week she was spinning some new yarn or talking about how she identified with a given demographic.

Hillary's focus on appearances and identity politics is gender relevant and does inform much of what has disgusted me about her campaign, but not in the vote-against-women sense that far too many liberal women have been claiming. It's offensive because it's assumed by her own campaign that playing the game this way is essential to winning over the women that her campaign expected it would be relying on to keep her afloat.

Rather than talking to women as responsible politically minded adults she has chosen to market herself on identity and image. To those of us who winced in agony when we had to sit through Kerry and Bush feeble discussion about how much they loved each other's kids, that's just not acceptable anymore. To those of us who worry about their daughters growing up with the pressure to look a certain way getting the better of them, it's something worth spewing some serious vitriol over.

And I'm just talking about how my personal distaste for Hillary began. I didn't like all the special interests she was bringing with her and was pretty disappointed to discover that she had been among the kow-tow-to-Bush crowd but I still respected her at that point. I just thought she was out of touch and making a really serious campaign mistake.

But then when the positive identity thing wasn't working for her, she attempted to apply the same politics in a negative fashion to my candidate and that's when I started to take it personally. Obama excites me because at 34 years of age, he is the first candidate in my living memory who actually has the stuff to engage the country in a dialog that appeals to the best in us rather than engaging in baseless attacks that pander to the worst. When Hillary made with the experience and substance attacks she declared war on those of us who believe that in order to bring this country back from the brink the first thing that needs to change is politics itself.

Obama has been stumbling a bit on Bittergate (he should have never apologized) but for the most part, when the Rove-Style politics have come into play he has rarely made the mistake of playing into them by attempting to block, distract, or ward them off like Kerry did. He simply walks right into them, talks about the issues involved, and lets the country decide whether it thinks the attacks ought to stick. It seems to me like PA has spoken already and I for one am sick to death of her "trying things" to run a successful campaign when she'd be in a much better position by being and doing presidential rather than attempting to portray herself as an American Superwoman Hero while attempting knock Obama's undeniably historic candidate image down a notch.

Apparently the universe thought America needed a wake up call and decided we needed to learn about ourselves in the process. First, anybody who says they would vote for MCcain if they can't vote for Barack, does not want change ,they just want a younger man for president instead of the older one.I will vote for Hillary or Barack, they are both great. And lets not forget our first teacher( for most people)was our mothers. I think alot of men can't stand Hillary cause she might remind them that their mother is running the country.So Guys, don't hate your first teacher, your mothers. Most Men don't want to hear Hillary cause it's like listening to their mothers nagging them, and their girl friends and wifes .

Now lets not forget that now their are different types of feminists, however , it's a label all women can't escape.I have to recommend a book to the author called " Meeting The Great Bliss Queen" written by Anne Carolyn Klein.