Feminists want to 'protect' Hillary Clinton. Do they realise they are doing her dirty work?

‘Do you really not like Hillary Clinton, or are you just sexist?’ Cosmopolitan actually asked that question last week. Claiming that much anti-Clinton commentary is ‘gender-specific’, with Hillary frequently described as ‘dishonest’ or ‘shrill’, the mag asked Clinton’s critics to search their souls to see if they really do oppose Clinton the politician or just hate women in general. Americans who would rather chew tin foil than vote for Hillary: are you misogynists or what?

Cosmo’s implicit branding of Hillary’s critics as sexists — all of them? All those millions of people? — is only the latest stab by the Hillary fanclub to chill criticism of their leader. Never has feminism been wielded as cynically and censoriously as it is by the Clinton-backing set. Anyone who rails against Hillary, who fires at her the kind of ridicule and mocking that politicians receive all the time, is likely to find themselves branded a sexist.