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Prof and her husband were eligible for tenure IN THE SAME DEPARTMENT at about the same time.  Unfortunately they have a disabled child and they both had to miss a fair amount of work to care for him.

Husband breezed through and obtained tenure.

(Female) prof and wife experienced this:  "We're a little concerned about how much work you're missing".

She finally DID obtain tenure, but it was a fight.

In fact, there's plenty to criticize about both candidates without bringing in gender or race at all.

It's just that HRC has been rather consistently attacked with a sexist subtext in the background (or in some cases, in the foreground). And, as you say, since sexism is more accepted, even among Democrats, many refuse to see it. Meanwhile, anything racist has been tamped down. When calling Obama "show-offy" has been mangled to show racism, you can see how much more racism is decried by our fellow Democrats than sexism.

The attacks that BTD has brought up for discussion are ones where sexism was arguably involved. Lots of Obama supporters chose to mock the very idea.

While I agree with you that sexism is not necessarily behind this, this charge is simply not true

For example, according the Pew report, 1 out of 14 adults in jail are men.

Would you suggest that sexism is visible in this statistic, given the proportional population of this country?

We live in a culture in which the kind of incarceration rates that young black men endure is more acceptable, that is, less decried as racist, than suggesting that a African American candidate's claims about the consistency of his anti-war stance is a "fairy tale."

Now that is genuinely absurd and morally disgusting. So why is it so?

My personal opinion about this is that a great deal of liberal emphasis on "politically correct" speech is in fact an expression of hidden (unconcious?) liberal racism. What do I mean by that? Well, I think many liberals don't want to offend blacks because they are, at heart, afraid of them.

Once you recognize that fear, you can see more clearly why a culture might incarcerate African Americans at an immoral rate, yet, go into hysterics about language that may offend them.