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Ooh, careful there. I think
Ooh, careful there. I think what I am trying to do is meet the oversimplified charge that every criticism of the Clinton campaign can be reduced to gender. Certainly we would not accept that every criticism of Obama's campaign is at heart racist, but there seems to be something too essential about gender when it comes to Hillary for you. I see this as problematic if nothing else for the reason that Hillary has tried to consciously distance herself from gender politics, has tried to remove herself from feminine identifications (it has been argued by Josh Gunn among others that Hillary does not in fact identify - to others, to herself - as a woman). When I bring up the complications - the challenges to pigeonholing women as one group, disregarding age, race (yes, and even sexuality as you point out) we run a great risk of rhetorically replacing gender as fundamental to and reducible to identity politics.
The truth is things are much more complicated than this, and I think reducing the race to gender-bias and assuming all women face equal and the same discrimination and that this is the egregious move. I think this particularized knowledge is one of the great accomplishments of third wave and third world feminism. To imply that this is a "postfeminism" is insulting.