Ever hear the saying “From the horse’s mouth”? For a while now the media has been insisting that it’s treatment of the Democratic presidential candidates has been not only fair and balanced but that they have in no way played the gender card against Sen. Clinton. In fact, they go on, sexism just really doesn’t play into politics – or even out in the day to day lives of ordinary people – anymore. We are a gender blind nation of equals, baby.

The truth is something different and frankly for me this goes far beyond the current political campaign. How do you raise daughters in a such a chilly emotional climate? When these are the messages that are being hurled at us by the media? How does a young female (or an old one even) learn to be proud of who they are when everything about their biology is considered fair game for ridicule by people who should know better?