The thing is that Hillary Clinton is so lucky that she is running against someone who is so viscerally awful and also a consummate liar because she’s managed to like get thru this election w basically 0 accountability for numerous actual shit things she has done, and even when her opponent brings things up that she should actually answer for (Haiti, her treatment of rape victims, etc), it gets drowned out by his general propensity for lying, misogyny, and also is easily hand waved away by his own flagrant offenses
the thing is that women are judged more harshly than their male peers, because everyone has been conditioned via the patriarchy to see women as either madonnas (pure and godly) or as whores (promiscuous and evil), since HRC (like all women) doesn’t fit easily into either category, we assume its the latter, and that she’s evil incarnate, making it easier to believe the most incredible (mostly right-wing) lies about her, or punish her for the sins of her husband (since we are also conditioned to believe that a woman’s identity is inextricable from her husband’s). this also has the ironic side effect of most women on the left feeling unable to celebrate that, for the first time ever, a woman will be elected president—less than 100 years after women were given the right to vote. the patriarchy wins again.
