2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A question about intellectual honesty. RE: Clinton's charge of sexism [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)I'm sorry but at some point this gets ridiculous. I prefer to give women more credit and believe that they are able to handle criticism as well as men. I was watching the debate with a very PC woman, and she did not react in any way to that exchange.
Men also get criticized and "attacked" and called less then nice names all the time. It would be preferable if everyone was nicer to everyone, but unfortunately the world doesn't seem to work that way. If people think Bernie was beating up on her, the GE is going to be horrific. Perhaps we should protect her from that ordeal.
Sanders has been exceptionally polite towards her so far. The strongest criticism he has given (before she decided to nasty up the campaign) has been things like "I respect Sec, Clinton a great deal, and we are friends, but on this she and I have a disagreement." What an ogre.