Have you watched her in action? She’d be considered a TERRIFIC politician if she were male. She’s engaged, quick on her feet, sympathetic, smart, and unfuckingbelievably well prepared. But everything she does is judged against this super coded background noise of “but well she’s shrill and her ambition is unseemly.”…

I didn’t dispute that it would be the first for both, you aren’t laying out a new fact. But it is simply not on the same level, and will not have the same impact to a significant portion of our population. And to try to suggest they have the same significance is to be woefully ignorant. In 2013, women comprised 20% of…

His use of the quote was to dismiss anything about Clinton except her uterus. That the only thing she has going for her candidacy is her sex. He basically invalidates her career, activism, education, etc and makes it only about her gender. Fuck that noise.

I think you’re conflating a couple of things - first, Hillary has never said “elect me because I’m a woman” - she has said that her gender is relevant to her experience, which is honestly not that far off of what Obama said in 2008 about his experience with race (google it).

I’m sorry but the first woman president is not in the same ballpark as the first Jewish president. In over 200 years in which this country has always been majority women, we have never had a single woman president.

It’s the difference between punching up and punching down. EVERYTHING is made for white, straight, cis men. So they don’t have to rally their communities around anything, because it’s all just...theirs. By default.

I think most of the people are upset because it sets up a straw man that Hilary thinks she’s qualified because she’s a woman. Hillary thinks she’s qualified because of her experience, intelligence, skills, and plans, and a man wouldn’t have to put up with this kind of bullshit suggesting she’s just campaigning on her…

Everyone seems to think that saying “I’m voting for Clinton because she’s a woman” really means “I’m *only* voting for Clinton because she’s a woman, and I obviously just haven’t *researched* enough and only vote on genitalia”

I’m supporting Clinton because I think she’ll be a better general election candidate than Sanders and I think she’ll be a better president too. However I am also supporting her because she’s a woman. And everytime I see any sort of criticism of that line of thinking it just reinforces my belief that we have to…

Why do you think it’s worse in law school? Is male entitlement worse in general there?

Thank you. Yes, I’ll just wait here while every other famous female singer trots out their secret female producers so that we can all see what a shitty person Taylor Swift is because it’s Taylor Swifts fault the music scene is a sausage fest. Give me a break. I am by no means a fan but come the fuck on. She stands up…

I think these bloggers think they’d lose their (non existent) street cred if they defended Taylor. I mean, even the headline is veiled. Taylor didn’t merely respond to Kanye, she called him out, and did it with class. Somehow still, we need to point out she’s annoying. And the “yeah but she has male producers so I…

We are so fucked if this is the shit coming from a supposed feminist blog.

Exactly what I was thinking. Personal feelings about TSwift aside, how is a woman asserting herself and taking (deserved) credit for her own accomplishments something to mock or deem “insufferable”?