2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: No, it doesn't look sexist at all. Uh uh. Nope. Nothing to see here... [View all]R B Garr
(16,950 posts)exerting his male authority, and his reasons for doing so are not completely rational and contradict his earlier positions, but he doesn't care because he doesn't have to.
That's all you can call it when a man refuses to acknowledge that he got beat by a woman. His authoritarianism and moral "preening"* have been on full display and are his main campaign barbs, but his descending into this full-out confrontation and denial of his circumstances comes from some reservoir of self-entitlement and privilege that he is entitled to an innate advantage and he doesn't have to explain it in rational terms. He just gets to live it out because he decided that's his right.
*"moral preening" is something I read about Sanders in a pundit's article, and it struck me as a very apt description/