Some Inexcusable Sadness wrote:

I'd like to see a more serious effort to uncover how much of Hillary's problem was due to sexism. Isn't it true that some of the sexist tinged language, inexcusable as it was, was really just a cheap and easy way to attack someone that maybe you really don't like for other reasons.

Me, for example. I am a 61 year old woman who has never found Hillary to be genuine; she tries on a new personality every other week; much of what she says comes across as vapid; she expends a lot of effort trying to look tough, which scares me (we are just finishing 8 years with a president who tries to look tough). Perhaps one could approach the question this way: I am in the demographic that is supposed to like Hillary, EXCEPT that I am too well educated (grad degree). Do I flatter myself by saying that perhaps a more educated, more enlightened feminism does NOT support someone like Hillary?

Ironically, Barack has the characteristics that are more sterotypically female that I have been missing in a president: a desire to conciliate and solve things with diplomacy rather than rattling his sabers. To be honest, I think Hillary is narcissistic and a flawed candidate. Her experience is not really strong; many people who supported her told me that they felt she'd be great because she'd have Bill right there by her side. How feminist is that?? To vote for a woman because her man will know what to do? This is a more complicated picture than you have presented.