The XX Factor: What women really think.

They Hate Me! They Really, Really Hate Me!

Emily, Emily, and Hanna: I’ll say this for the Robin Morgan letter. It certainly does crystallize the battle lines. I wonder if she’s mobilized half as many women as she antagonized with this effort.

Her argument features the same limp syllogism Rich Ford wrote about last month: Some people oppose Hillary because she’s a woman; therefore everyone who opposes Hillary necessarily hates women. Sure, you can find some wisp of sexism under every attack on Hillary Clinton if you want to, and some of our sisters in the blogosphere have thus smoked out Josh Marshall and Andrew Sullivan as deranged woman-haters, no better than Chris Matthews and Bill Kristol.

There are a lot of creepy cretins out there who hate women, and by all means let’s shame them right back into their caves. But the suggestion that nobody can oppose Hillary without also hating women is just as sexist, and the notion that women must vote for her simply because sexism is gross is even worse.