During the election, it was not just the signs at rallies and posts from Trump backers and, let’s face it, sadly, some Sanders supporters, that had the c-word written all over them. There was subtle sexism, too. This one still gets to me: “I do want a woman president. But I want the right woman. And she is not the right woman.” As if we’ve always had the right man. Yes, Rutherford B. Hayes was the right man. “Everyone stop. Look no further. We’ve got Franklin Pierce. He’s the one.”

Let me get this straight. Conveniently, when a woman is the front runner, we now need the exact right person? Suddenly, that’s the criteria? We have never had that standard before.

People on the political right and left engaged in this subtle sexism of “the right woman.” So, the reasoning of those on the left who refused to support Clinton in the general election went like this: “If we risk the awful and unqualified Trump, so be it. Yes, he wants to ban a whole religion and has a white nationalist as a campaign chairman. But I cannot support Clinton, because I will not be responsible for putting in … the wrong woman! My conscience will not allow it.”

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To those who say, “It’s not about gender, I respect Elizabeth Warren more than anyone,” I have one question: Then why didn’t you listen to the woman you respect most when Warren begged you for five months to support Clinton?” I can hear them respond: “Because I don’t listen to that hag. ‘Vote for Hillary. Vote for Hillary!’ What does Liz Warren know?”

Okay, so I never heard anyone say exactly that and I don’t know what goes on in their mind. My point is that they could not bring themselves to listen to the woman they worship, even when she was pleading with them. It makes me wonder, if Warren is the frontrunner in 2020, which other woman who is not running will they claim they support?