I’m not a Clinton supporter—I already told you I’m not voting for her in the primary. If you’re going to complain about people making assumptions, do make sure you’re not guilty yourself.

I just think that there are a lot more people being sexist (whether they realize it or not) than are being falsely accused of it, so I care more about the former than the latter. It’s not that it doesn’t happen, ever, it’s that it’s rarer for people to take truly benign comments and call them sexist than it is for…

The thing is, every candidate has lots of supporters who think no criticism of said candidate is valid. She’s no different in that regard, but people treat her (and her supporters) as if they invented the concept, or at least as if they’re guiltier of it than everyone else.

Nobody said that any criticism of her is based on that—that’s the point. It’s derailing, and it’s made up. Every time someone brings up legitimate points about sexism, they get shouted down with “BUT I JUST HATE HER BECAUSE IRAQ HOW DARE YOU?”

The bigger issue is that he himself made the argument that style and approach ARE gendered, in the same Q&A session. He said that women writers are, because of their gender, less capable of writing about and less interested in doing certain kinds of work.

Making the argument that perhaps, if parents are going to give only one of their names to the children, there are reasons it should be the woman’s, is not sexist.

After the kid is born they do, but no more so than the mother. Since that 9 months of pregnancy and childbirth would be all that set otherwise egalitarian parents apart, and that’s what she was explicitly referring to, what’s the problem?