A VERY BELATED NOTE ON THE HILLARY DEBATE. The media treatment of Hillary Clinton's campaign has not been free of misogyny or sexism. But one particular sexist card has not been played much, as far as I can tell, and that is the argument that if she won the presidency it would really be her husband who would be running the country again.
Now, on my optimistic days I think this omission is a sign of a fairer society, a society in which women are simply assumed to have agency. But on my not-so-optimistic days I suspect that we don't hear these hints because of Bill Clinton's high approval ratings. -- J. Goodrich