There’s also the “Women accuse me of being sexist, so I’ll say they’re hysterical and just imagining misogyny and the patriarchy keeping them down”, which is unfortunately common.

That is not what I meant. To me, it lumps in and infers that all Bernie supporters are men. I’ve been called a “BernieBro” by Hillary supporters just for vocalizing my support, and demonized for not supporting Hillary because I'm a woman. It’s rude as all hell.

I tried to engage with you in a polite way making the assumption that you were not a troll. I’m not going to dismiss the comment that you have made because it is a perfect example of what soft sexism is. Thank you for devaluing my lived experience and the lived experience of most of the women I know.

Yo bro, next time you see some asshole go off on what a bitch Hillary is for having thoughts, why don’t you take it up with them. not me

Yet addressing it to me.

Do please show me where either Joanna or I have said there aren’t perfectly fine Bernie supporters or that we’re undecided.

fair enough to the other three, but I don’t think changing your mind over the course of fifteen years can really be considered ‘flip-flopping.’ it’s called reconsidering your stance and changing your mind. it happens (if you’re an emotionally mature, reasonably intelligent person).

Yeah, boy, I was really traumatized. Asking someone to unfollow instead of just being a jerk and blocking them, that’s really making a federal case, huh?

I am going to politely disagree with you. She talks a lot about how men are getting promoted when women don’t and she says that “they seem to work harder.” I get really frustrated with that because that isn’t really something that can be quantified. Most women have experienced some form of soft sexism in the…

I’m not sure what, if anything, it says about Sanders the man. I think it is, perhaps, a byproduct of his general attitude (although he would never say this explicitly) that all forms of inequality and discrimination boil down to or have their root in issues of class, which is not at all surprising given his age and…

I take it you included gay rights, the TPP and various gas\mining projects on the list of reasons you did not support Obama?

A few dinners ago my REDACTED told me that, given the chance, he would “gleefully choke Clinton to death with his bare hands”. It wasn’t even in the context of a political discussion, he just heard someone else mention Clinton across the room.

Jesus christ you are both dense and a serious part of the problem. This article is not at all about substantive political differences between sanders and clinton, nor is it about who is better for women or minorities or queer people or poor people. It is about a very, very real phenomena with Bernie supporters online.…

No, and it doesn’t. I didn’t say it did. I was specifically complaining about berniebros and not Sanders himself.

You do realize that women are fifty percent of the population, not a special interest group?

That’s the thing is Hillary’s leading with women and minorities and rather than learn why that is the white dudes who like Bernie just tell them they’re stupid.

I feel like my response is very evenhanded, so I’m not sure why you think I’m the one being divisive, or trying to alienate potential allies. I see the merits and the limitations of both Clinton and Sanders as candidates. Like many people in this thread I am willing to vote for both candidates. What I am opposed to is…

Did they call you a cunt and say you didn’t understand politics? Did they say it was about your vagina?

It is such a sign of male privilege for Bernie bros not to recognize what is a stake for women in the 2016 election.

If you listen exclusively to people who don’t want HRC to be the nominee, you will hear that she’s basically a Republican until the cows come home. If you look at her voting record, you hear another story - she and Sanders divided on some of the most important votes of our lifetime (the Iraq war support is a…