Diary is absolutely great, BTW.  

Please recommend, folks.  

it's refreshing that the diarist brings cultural references, and the role of Kathrine Switzer.

Women have come a long way.  We shouldn't forget that.

It is fair to call a spade a spade, if that's what you see.

However, if you make your candidacy about that when you rather assiduously avoided it earlier, it comes across as a negative.  

My girlfriend, my mother, and most of my female friends do not consider sexism to have been a major issue in this campaign.  They do consider Senator Clinton's willingness to blame basically everything and everyone other than herself or her family for the situation to have been a major issue.

If you want to get past sexism you don't do yourself or your cause much favor if you blame it for things that have far more obvious and compelling explanations.

Linfar, the problem with women these days is they do not stand up for themselves as a collective group the way that Blacks, Hispanics, or other oppressed or minority groups have. When women stop jumping into the sexist parade of their own, then, you'll stop being the 51% minority. In many ways, the problems that women have today are largely self-inflicted. They allow others to back them down into submission. Until women (as a collective group) begin to realized that their powerful should be heard, you will continue to have these sexist remarks being delineated--even among other women.

Thank you for pointing out that there is a difference, a big difference, between whining and calling foul on sexism!  

If the media had been doing their job, calling the foul that was occurring would not have been necessary.  But the MSM was not, even when bloggers and posters all over the place were pointing it out!  So personally, I was cheering Hillary when she called the debate moderators by pointing out that she was so often called upon with the first questions.  And it should be noted that she even added that she didn't mind being called on first, she was simply pointing it out.  Had ANY male candidate been treated the same way, and made the same point Hillary had, it would have been recognized as exactly that--pointing out something that had become obvious to so many.  But, no, Hillary was quickly referred to as a whining woman for mentioning it by the very commentators who had been presenting her that way and wanted to continue doing so rather than admit they were busted.  

While some may be willing to call a spade a club, it doesn't change the fact that a spade is a spade.  And thankfully some are willing to stand up for that truth, even if forced to begrudgingly.

She stood up, she had EVERY advantage, she was an odds on front runner, but she LOST. She is being called a whiner because she is dishonestly trying every trick in the book to get the rules overturned, including whipping up a froth of indignation over the supposed sexism that she is a victim of.  Well she was the one that ran on an experienced, tough as nails platform - turns out she isn't that tough after all.  She was the high priestess of the DLC boys club, but now everyone is against her because she's a "girl".  Give me a break.  All the successful female leaders that have gone before her would be dismayed at her victimhood - and not one of them would ever have allowed themselves to be called a girl.  

that a champion and whining don't go hand in hand.

I will let you be woman at the pity party.

Champions look at the merits, without sniveling.

Mother Theresa was an admirable woman who did much for many.  She would not appreciate your BS hyperbole about another who has done much for many.  You people who keep repeating this line

"Hillary only cares about one person...herself!"

really don't know wtf you are talking about.  Kind of makes you look just dumb and mean ~ like some twit school kid.

And your authority for saying that is?

Oh, I know, yourself, Obama campaign and MSM.  

It's a new variation of "Hillary is too ambitious" crap.

And Obama is different and has done more than Mother Teresa, how?

was against a woman's right to make her own reproductive choices.

It's the truth. The whole feminist movement has always been about white women. Their actions during this primary is just reinforcing what most women of color thought of them. They only care about themselves and everyone else be damnned.

Of course, it's not PC to point out the percentage of the vote of AA that Obama gets.  

simpler version: it's OK that my voters vote for me for whatever reasons.  your voters have dirty motives.

the poster in question seems to be a determined race-baiter...

It's mathematically impossible for her to win.