DISQUS

Considering a recent study which concluded that nearly 40 %of workplace bullying of women is done by women, I'm not surprised that Hillary's playing of the gender card (and I do believe she did through her surrogates at least) hasn't worked for her. You see, the gender card doesn't necessarily work.

I've been bullied more by women than I ever was by men. I've had the gender card played by female coworkers throughout my entire career as a means of manipulating and marginalizing me. I've been treated with more straightforwardness and respect from men than I ever have have experienced with women. I suggest that Hillary's failure to play the gender card successfully is because too many women recognize it for what it is - playing the "best friend" card whilst stabbing a "competitor" in the back. Playing the gender card is essentially a ploy to get power through manipulation and sex discrimination. A lot of women - even older white women like me - know it.

If it isn't enough, then the country is doomed. Why? Because we separate reason, understanding, fairness, intellectual honesty and tolerance from our politics. A decent society can't be sustained by politics that are dominated by the darkest influences in human nature. It doesn't have to be a dramatic death. It could just as well be a slow, insidious one. Dead is dead whatever the cause.

Well, if requires three to make a trend, how 'bout counting Bill Clinton's remarks in S. Carolina? Bob Johnson? Gov. Rendell?, Wolfson? Penn? Anyone of the above?

Please, what is your purpose in writing such egregious nastiness. Speaker Pelosie's response was, I believe entirely reasonable given the "when did you stop beating your wife" category of questioning?

I'm new to this site and would like to know. Does Politico consider itself a serious publication? Frankly this is an adolescent piece if I ever saw one and I wonder if there is any editorial discretion being applied.