2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Folks the US can't shut down all political disagreement for 8 years simply because.... [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)start a Twitter campaign to tell her to step aside for the man who's losing to her, I suspect sexism in that.
The whole "drop out Hillary" thing was sexism. There was never a "drop out Barack" campaign in 2008 even though his lead was much smaller.
Another double standard:
In 2008, Clinton by some arguments was winning the popular vote and was within a few percentage points in terms of pledged delegates, especially with Florida and Michigan under dispute.
Nonetheless, lots of dudebros in the media (Tweety, Olbermann etc) were calling on her to drop out (with Olbermann making a crack about having her shot in back room). And, when her opponent--a man--crossed the absolute majority of delegates threshold with superdelegates, he claimed victory.
In 2016, she is far and insurpassably ahead of Sanders in every possible relevant metric, and on Tuesday will seize a majority of every category of delegates.
And Mister Sanders wags his finger at her and says she has no right to declare victory just because she beat his ass. Because she's held to a higher standard than every other candidate ever to win. Because winning a majority of votes--good enough for every man to lead in the race before her--is not enough for her.
Yeah, no double standard there.
Not to mention Sanders supporters referring to her as "The Queen" and "Her Royal Highness." Sanders supporters/protestors were calling her a 'whore' outside an event yesterday.
If you want another example of sexism, people find her less trustworthy than Bill. And Bill is twenty times more dishonest.