Do you your own part. Study what is sexism, challenge yourself to see IT in your thinking patterns and make changes. What I find is that many people have an opinion on sexism, and it is precisely just that–an opinion. It is not informed opinion.

I teach journalism and discuss sexism with my students. Yet, they struggle to see it, including many female students. In fact, some male students appear to get it more than females, especially if they are older than the female students. This issue of sexism is a complex problem. Both men and women acquiesce to sexism as Katie Couric so aptly put it.

Do you your own part. Study what is sexism, challenge yourself to see in your thinking patterns and make changes. What I find is that many people have an opinion on sexism, and it is precisely just that–an opinion. It is not informed opinion.

But, Mr. Jarvis, where were you? Yes, you supported Hillary and made that clear, but for a person whose focus is the media, where were you? I came to this blog occasionally, not daily, wondering if it would ever occur to you to at least comment on not just the sexism but the fact that the entire media (print, TV, and the A-List blogs) was engaged in actively promoting the Obama candidacy and destroying not just the Hillary candidacy but Hillary herself.

Even Richard Nixon at his lowest point had a few “name” supporters.

Can any of us remember the last time so many candidates represented so many of our differences? Last time I can remember, and barely because I’ve only read the history, was Kennedy/Nixon, when Kennedy’s Catholicism came up. Before Kennedy, we had Al Smith in the 1920’s….

In time, a lot of the nasty remarks will go away. Maybe that will happen when the people continue to vote for media outlets (and debates) with their remotes and voice their opinions very loudly through the various forms of social media. It may also happen when, as was stated above, we see a woman as a presidential candidate who’s there because she has solid experience as a governor. And, frankly, it may have been Mrs. Clinton’s rather big-mouthed baggage that didn’t help her with some voters. Maybe some of us just didn’t want the Hill and Bill show again.

Hey, Hillary was a very promising individual before she met Bill. If she’d never married him, she could have risen to… a partner at Winston & Strawn.

Hillary Clinton glommed on to Bill and has ridden that association for all it is worth. She hasn’t accomplished anything as a Senator, she voted for the war and then tried to undermine it when the politics changed. Her supporters can scream epithets like little babies, but it is the truth and, in this case, I gues the truth hurts.

“It is about time that people start to face up to the fact that sexism is still a major problem.”

This is why one of the first questions I ask a woman is what she thinks about feminism.

Really enthused = leave her immediately.

It appears that most Democrats are more scared of being a racist.

Try introducing yourself as “Stefanie” instead, and see what happens.

“It is about time that people start to face up to the fact that sexism is still a major problem. When I introduce myself as a feminist, I am often drawn into a debate about how women have attained equality already – not when things like this are still happening”

Most of us just eye roll because being a feminist is sort of like being a Marxist.. you just replace class with gender and spout a bunch of lame theories to hate out groups (capitalists AND republicans, white males, et cetera)…

Trust me; it’s what feminists are perceived as standing for… not ’sexism’.. that gets you the cold shoulder…

60s feminism was better… but it’s really gone downhill since the 90s. Partially because you have achieved so many of your goals… you have to grasp at abstractions to stay outraged and/or the more moderate people melted away from the movement leaving bitter clingers in charge…

Clinton? I’d say sexism was the least of her worries. Factor in shady real estate deals, shady deals at Rose Law Firm, Travelgate, Filegate, health-care fiasco, BILL Clinton — and there’s plenty more — and you’ve got a good many other reasons not to elect her.

Nothing concentrates the mind like a hanging and she handled her situation extremely well. I would never vote for her but was thinking there at the end….I would disagree with her on almost everything but I could live with it.

Obama…..who knows…none of us do. Hillary we know.

As far as the problem Jeff’s actually posing, here’s a question — Does the sexism against Hillary, or for that matter, the racism against Obama, shape people’s negative views about their politics, or do their political views bring out the worst in people (in Hillary’s case now on the right and the left) and cause them to reveal their latent sexism/racism as a brute and base way of expressing their anger? I think that when people get really emotional about political disagreements, many have a habit of seeking out the most easily identifiable differences between themselves and that person and try to use it as an invective, and the image of Hillary created by both people who dislike her and her own actions have made it more socially acceptable (though not socially correct) to go after her in a sexist way that is tolerate in a way hurling racial slurs at Obama today isn’t by society.

The Democratic Party is the party of dreadful Identity Politics, by all means Democrats continue on with the ugly that you are.

I have a daughter. More than that, I wanted to be president myself when I was growing up. I would dearly love to see a woman elected President in my lifetime – but I’m not willing to see just any woman elected. (And this also goes for Obama, and shame on you, Democrats, for trying to elect a man whose record in public service renders him almost a “token” for the Presidency. “Hope”? “Change”? For heaven’s sake. Get over the identities and move on to the actual individuals.)

When we get around to true equal responsibility in this society, we’ll get around to true equal opportunity.

I’ve long wondered whether some of the emphasis on Clinton’s gender is a Hillary stratagem to distract concern that her Presidency would be Richard Nixon’s third term.

You would think it would be all the great fun we have raping, pillaging and plundering minorities, women, poor people, democrats, starving children, mother earth, homeless people, spotted owls, dolphins and baby fawns.

But you would be wrong.

The answer is that no victim status is allowed. Ultimately, did you win or lose?

Hillary gained the most respect from everyone when she quit whining, stopped crying and figured out she wasn’t’ going to be anointed. I can’t stand her but was impressed the last two months when she came out fighting.

That’s what you lefties don’t get. She is now the tougher candidate because she went through the fire and came out much stronger, she was the token “Republican” in the primary. She got a chance to take the tough questions and hone her rhetoric just like the Republicans.

Obambi has been protected throughout primary and will be coddled as much as possible in the general by the press. And when it heats up is he going to be able to handle it?

As far as the sexist thing, Hillary lost because she was a terrible candidate and has massive amounts of baggage. The media, fickle as always, wanted a different candidate to fulfill their need to put a Democrat in the White House. Posters who mentioned the fact that compared to the Republicans, no Democrat ever receives comparablly negative press coverage are correct- the media turned on Hillary because they decided Obama would be a better choice to win the White House in November. And the other posters are correct- the coverage Hillary received is nowhere near the level of pure hatred that the Bush Administration has been putting up with from the national media since November 2000.

“It’s interesting how so many people who can see racism in everything that is said or written about Obama (and even in many things where he isn’t named) are totally unable to see the obnoxious way Clinton was treated. Then again, it’s still mostly men running newsrooms.”

She got a raw deal… I just wouldn’t agree it was because she is a woman. She just wasn’t the MSM consensus choice. Obama is.

McCain will get the same negative treatment.

As a male conservative who votes republican… I know Hillary and Hillary’s supporters were treated terribly by Obama supporters. I stopped by their blogs and read the comments from Obama supporters.. It’s just that they treat people like me the same exact way. They treat everyone that disagrees with them that way. Female / sexism has nothing to do with it. They’ll throw any insult that comes to mind and sometimes those are sexist… I remember one lame one from an Obamaniac putting down the [blue collar] Hillary people for liking cheesesteaks… anyway, it’s not sexism IMO.. it’s that Obama attracted some people who are asses.