2016 Postmortem

and it is all the more irritating in that you couch it in what seems like reason.

Maybe it makes you feel more on top of an analysis to say sexism was a part, but not really a large part, of why Clinton didn't get elected.

To those of us who watched the media coverage and recognized the comments from those high to low who used misogynistic words to dismiss or disparage Clinton, your words do affirm that you just aren't sensitized to this issue sufficiently.

Of course your feelings wouldn't be triggered if you haven't experienced how easy it is to dismiss women and their achievements. But those of us who do experience that all the time will have strong feelings about it.

I wish it were as simple as getting rid of vile thoughts and feelings. Women who care about men for the most part have to learn not to see unthinking misogyny as vile or we couldn't care about the men in our lives. But this was such an exceptional woman and to see her have to deal with subtle to in-your-face-ugly misogyny and to have that prevail was a body blow. It just was and is a body blow.