Last word on Hillary

Rebecca Traister has an awesome op-ed in Salon on how infuriated women flipped the bird at the media (in particular, the creepily obsessed, clearly-not-getting-any Chris Matthews) and gave New Hampshire to Hillary. I've had a surprisingly impossible time convincing (liberal) men that it was perfectly reasonable for women to feel the way they did about the media's coverage of Hillary, but I suppose "girls are idiots" is a comfortable enough meme. (Seriously, the theme of the male-pundit-dominated commentary appears to be, "Everyone in New Hampshire was on their period!")

Anyway, as long as the media ignores the fact that the way Clinton is portrayed elicits a powerful--and rational!!--reaction in the women who are watching, they're going to keep being shocked and dismayed each time she beats expectations. Traister makes this point with the best line in the piece (which is titled "The witch ain't dead, and Chris Matthews is a ding-dong"):

But here's a message from the women of New Hampshire, and me, to Hillary Clinton's exuberant media antagonists: You have no power here. Now be gone, before somebody drops a house on you!