Hillary Clinton says misogyny played a role in her loss. Research suggests she might be right.

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38. There are a lot of women out there who bought into "Leave it to Beaver"

as some sort of cultural norm instead of a sitcom: the stay at home Mom, the workadaddy who disappeared except at night and on weekends, and the two children (male, of course) who never said any bad words or ditched school or drank beer or smoked anything. While I don't know any who mop the floor or scrub the bathtubs in pearls and heels, the fantasy life holds. They would rather die than think a woman could do the job of president, they like having their lives planned out and no real decisions to have to make.

I don't know what to do about them except hope that damned TV show stops being rerun at some point and the poor dears no longer have a televised rule book to follow. Maybe their daughters will realize they're nuts. Their sons never will, it's been too nice to have an unpaid domestic servant around the house.