The "you're internally sexist if you don't vote for Hillary" thing aimed at women from the Hillary camp is getting really tiresome.
While it is true women are less likely to want to implement draconian anti-woman laws, obviously, that is only one subject out of many, Hillary's opponent happens to be a rare man who has an even better track record for women's issues than she does (male feminists: they're a thing, and I'm not sexist enough to think otherwise), and presidents are not Congress and they don't make laws. Seriously, people need to stop obsessing over the presidency so much and pay more attention to the Congress critters they're electing. That's what really makes the difference. But anyway...
If women should vote for women simply because they're women and somehow all woman are good for women's issues, then Michelle Bachmann wouldn't have been a thing. Women are individual people. As a group, they are less likely to support anti-woman policy and more likely to support feminist policy. But that says nothing about an
individual candidate. Any given individual woman candidate is not simply a pile of statistics lumped into a woman-shaped body. They are individuals. Hillary the
individual is definitely no better than Sanders the
individual on most women's issues, and on some women's issues he's actually better than she is.
I will not be voting for a variety of reasons. But if I were, I could not in good conscience vote for the sell-out corporate candidate who also just so happens to have an abysmal record on other areas of human rights, like race relations. I'll also point out Hillary did the standard cowardly Dem thing when it came to SSM and just sort of avoided the question and defended DADT, where Sanders has been an outspoken LGBT rights supporter since the 70's, voted against DADT, and came out in favor of SSM promptly. Pretending for the sake of argument that it were even true that Hillary is the more feminist candidate, what makes me more important than black people or LGBT folk?
So if we want to compare civil rights records, Sanders beats her in all of them. And I'm supposed to vote for her because she has a vagina?
...Seems rather sexist to me.
Look. I would LOVE to support a female presidential candidate. Dude, seriously, it's 2016, and it's insane that we still haven't had a woman as president when women make up half the population. If Warren had run, I would have supported her. But I can't in good conscience support an inferior candidate simply because she has a vagina. I am really frickin' tired of being told I'm a sexist for that, after spending a decade of my life championing women's issues.