2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Not With Her, Still a Feminist [View all]athena
(4,187 posts)An 80% male Congress is "equal treatment"? 79 cents to the male dollar is "equal treatment"?
I would call it special treatment in favor of men. But of course, our society is perfectly fine with special treatment that benefits those in power: white men. People not only don't mind, but they don't even take notice when white men benefit from special treatment.
No one said Hillary should be given a pass because she's a woman. You are making up straw arguments to make your own position look less biased. A much higher standard is being applied to Hillary because she's a woman. Just look at how people say she hasn't really won the primary because she hasn't won enough pledged delegates to not need any superdelegates to vote for her. That criterion has never been applied to anyone else.
It is clear that Bernie supporters who hate Hillary hate her because she's a woman. There is nothing rational about such visceral hatred. It is a demonstration of precisely what is wrong with our sick society. It's sickening that they then turn around and accuse those of us who stand up for Hillary of being sexist. Accusing your opponent of your own crimes is a tactic straight out of the Republican textbook, and it is sickening to see progressives using it.
Reread Rebkeh's OP if you want to see an example of what it means to denigrate a woman. Pointing out that another woman is not feminist is not "denigrating" her; it's stating an honest opinion. And if Rebkeh is not very young, well, in that case, I see even less reason to tolerate her extreme hatred of Hillary.