UPDATED: A Clinton Minion on why Hillary is having such a tough time of it...
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WASHINGTON • Much of Hillary Clinton's difficulty in this campaign stems from a single, unalterable fact: She is a woman.
I'm not referring primarily to the Bernie Bros, those Bernie Sanders supporters who fill the Internet with misogynistic filth about Clinton. What drags down her candidacy is more pervasive and far subtler — unconscious, even.
(Wow, are you sure self-identified online Bernie Bros are really Bernie supporters? Have you ever heard of a campaign dirty trick? Amazing how it feeds right into her sexism theme, what a coincidence... But hey Dana, you are a good little Minion.) 
"It's very hard for a woman to telegraph passion," she explained. "When Bernie yells, it shows his dedication to the cause. When she yells, it's interpreted in a very different way: She's yelling at you."
(Well, when your true passion is for your 1% buddies and your own self-enrichment but you are trying to portray passion for the little people I admit it must be a hard job.)
Campaigning While Female also deprives Clinton of the ability to make lofty promises. Sanders, for example, has a $15 trillion nonstarter of a health care plan. If Clinton floated such a plan, the media would mock it as patently absurd. But Sanders gets a pass.
(They are constantly attacking Sanders while NEVER questioning her so called plans, her disastrous record on foreign policy, or how a person reviled by the opposing side will ever get anything done - that is unless it's reaching across the aisle to her Corporate Republican Buddies to deliver for the 1%.)
This is the essence of Clinton's trouble: If she can't plausibly offer pie-in-the-sky, and she can't raise her voice, how does she inspire people? This hurts particularly with young voters — the same segment that shunned Clinton in 2008. (The problem is young people are a LOT smarter than you give them credit for AND they are more ethical. Therein lies a REAL HUGE problem. And it is only pie in the sky to those who want to continue "business as usual."
(And the piece de resistance delivered by Clinton's Minion:
There's not much Clinton can do about this. But she can make the case that while Sanders talks "revolution," her presidency actually would be one, because the first female president would govern differently from her 44 predecessors.
(Play that SEXISM card. Poor Hillary, it's not her fault. It's those sexist voters and young voters that she just can't seem to "shake some sense into." And do I think Clinton will govern any differently than she did in the past with her husband - remember the two for one, or different than a male corporatist? No.)
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/3536765-155/milbank-the-sexist-double-standards-hurting
UPDATE: And you know what really pisses me off as a woman? When you falsely accuse people of sexism it hurts the women who are actually being subjected to sexism. But with your minions constantly playing this card, those women may just be accused of "pulling a Clinton" and their valid concerns dismissed.
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Response to Skwmom (Original post)
She plays the GENDER card to her advantage, getting knuckleheads like Dana Milbank to regurgitate such nonsense that she is so put upon while she and her campaign launch a vicious campaign of lies and dirty tricks against Bernie. In fact, recall from 2008 how she pummeled Obama with racist dog-whistles all the while complaining how she was the victim.
Hillary Struggles Against Sexism but Regularly Plays the Race Card.
http://www.alternet.org/story/84150/hillary_struggles_against_sexism_but_regularly_plays_race_card
with it. I can't host right now, but can only pop in and out intermittently.
So the piece is yours if you want it. Wear a flak jacket, though -- there's a certain group here that may not like the piece one little bit. 
Thanks again and all good wishes to you.
