I am so glad you guys linked to this, it is exactly - EXACTLY - how I feel about the whole situation and what I spent an hour on the phone last night trying to explain to my brother. I was much less articulate than this article, which I have already sent his way to read!

"Is it possible that for the first time in my life, my reaction to a political news cycle could have mirrored a larger national feeling?"

I.dare.hope.

Thank you!

Traister is right on! I'm still not voting for Clinton but I've been sickened by the behavior of the national media.

The night before the NH primaries, I said to by boyfriend, "I hope Hillary wins."

And he said "Why? You don't support Hillary."

And I was at a loss for words and I couldn't really tell him why and mumbled something about an underdog, which is funny to think of Clinton as being. This article really put my sentiments into words. It was awesome, and I'm still not sure who I'm voting for- Hil or Barak, but Hillary is moving up in my mind each day- partly because of the sexism that she is enduring.

thanks for the link. i probably wouldn't have seen it otherwise and now i've sent it to everyone i've talked to about this in the past week.

it's SO SOOOO satisfying to watch Matthews get smacked on this :)

Hell yeah.

She said exactly what I have been thinking, thanks for posting this.

my thoughts exactly. As she said, if I were a NH voter I would have voted for Clinton yesterday--and I have long been an enthusiastic Obama supporter. I will probably vote for Obama on super Tuesday, but the last week has forced me to examine my position.
All the bullshit she takes only makes Clinton grow in my mind. I feel like I wrote her off too soon--she's a brilliant woman who endures...I could really get behind that.

This was dead on (except for the part about the Steinem piece being right). Every time someone beats up on Clinton, I get closer and closer to voting for her.

Right on. This was the theory I'd come up with for Clinton's win, reflecting on my own paradoxical reaction to her Iowa loss. I too am "not a Hillary supporter, but..." and in fact I'm pretty much an anybody but Hillary supporter. But when I saw the misogynist pile-on I felt a little sick. Katha Pollitt predicted just this turn of events a year or so ago when she wrote that if everybody kept up with their misogynistic treatment of Clinton, "I might just have to vote for her."