Let's hope this is the last time I feel the urge to say this:

[capri0mni]

The more Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that I must accept her as the National Democratic Nominee, the less willing I am to do so.

(And it's not just my contrarian Capricorn nature that's the cause, here -- though that may be part of it)

The very argument she's making, right now ("If you don't vote for me, you're sexist!"), is a sexist argument: hanging so much of her credibility on the fact that her 46th chromosome looks something like an 'X' is just as spurious as dismissing her abilities because her 46th chromosome looks something like an 'X'.

However, if she is the nominee, I will still vote for her, over McCain.

Comments

[jekesta]

I know you know a million times more about the details of the campaign than me, and I haven't really been paying attention even to the coverage it gets over here, and some of this is based on stuff picked up from my friends list and stuff, and I don't know the sort of places or details of her saying 'vote for me or you are sexist' and I think there are big difficulties with her and all of that . . . but isn't she saying that if you don't vote for her you are voting for someone who (she believes) has run a terribly sexist campaign against her? So it's not so much that she thinks it's sexist to vote against a woman, as it is to vote FOR someone who has run a sexist campaign? Whether you believe he has or not, obviously changes whether or not you think it is, but from her point of view that seems like an okay argument to me.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a pretty fine line between:

"You're a sexist!" and "You want a sexist to run this country!"

I don't have the energy to google for all the specific quotes I've heard this last couple of weeks, and it would probably be tl;dr for you if I did. But the gist of it all has been: if the Democratic National Committee nominates Obama, then it will be an insult to all women, and proof they don't think a woman can win.