“ I won’t miss Citizens United Not Timid (no acronym, please), an anti-Clinton group founded by Republican guru Roger Stone. […] I will not miss the deafening, depressing silence of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean or other leading Democrats, who to my knowledge (with the exception of Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) haven’t publicly uttered a word of outrage at the unrelenting, sex-based hate that has been hurled at a former first lady and two-term senator from New York. Among those holding their tongues are hundreds of Democrats for whom Clinton has campaigned and raised millions of dollars. Don Imus endured more public ire from the political class when he insulted the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
-Marie Cocco, in her Washington Post editorial called “Misogyny I Won’t Miss.”
She enumerates the things she won’t be missing when the primary is over. I’m an Obama supporter but a significant portion of the criticism directed at Clinton has been sexist. I’ve heard progressive-thinking male friends of mine denounce her for being ‘shrill.’ Not only is that a totally empty critique, but it’s also one soley based on her gender. There are plenty of things unrelated to the fact she has a vagina to criticize her for.