Reply #24: Yes. Hillary did claim her loss is due to sexism:

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Clinton blames sexism for failure to overtake Obama

IN THE historic contest between a black man and a white woman, representing two groups who have never won a presidential nomination, to blame poor results on race or sex is taboo. Last week, for the first time, Hillary Clinton claimed that she faces deeper prejudice than Barack Obama. She was accused of pulling "the gender card" from the slim deck she still holds.

Obama reluctantly initiated a national conversation about race when Jeremiah Wright gave him no choice, but he rarely mentions the disadvantages he faces as an African-American running for office. Likewise, beyond promising to "break the highest and hardest glass ceiling" Clinton has previously avoided the suggestion that, as a woman, there are significant institutional barriers to her candidacy.

In an interview with the Washington Post on Tuesday, she argued that casual sexism is tolerated and occasionally promoted by the same media commentators who jump on any hint of racial prejudice. "There should be equal rejection of sexism and racism when it raises its ugly head," she said. "It does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by the comments by people who are nothing but misogynists It's been deeply offensive to millions of women."

This could be dismissed as a loser grumbling were it not so manifestly true. Clinton ran an incompetent campaign that ignored the caucus states, stressed experience over change and underestimated her opponent, but the pervasive gender bias she encountered didn't help. As Marie Cocco put it in the Post: "For all Clinton's political blemishes, the darker stain that has been exposed is the hatred of women that is accepted as a part of our culture."


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