Sen. Hillary Clinton “makes Rocky look like a pansy,” according to the North Carolina governor. She has “testicular fortitude,” in the words of one labor leader. In contrast, she’s behind shirts with pantsuits on them.

Say what?

Feminism isn’t the same now in the wake of the Clintons. And the Hillary Clinton campaign is partly responsible for femininity’s evolution. Clinton changed the way we view women, but in the process has changed feminism: from equality between genders, to expectation among genders.

And what better way to crystallize this than the success, fanfare and excesses of Sex and the City the movie… to remind yourself that men come and go, but three sidekicks and a ludicrous wardrobe make life worth living while you traverse a swampy city.

But what Sex and the City hits on is a female camaraderie, that when one is down, another will be there for a pick up. The franchise is marked by an odd hedonism and materialism, but gentle female blood exists. As women are there to pick another up, it is the downtrodden women whose responsibility it becomes to never forget.

Like how they’ll never forget Peggy Agar.

Agar is a reporter in Detroit. She harangued Barack Obama, trying to get a question off about autoworkers while he was touring a Chrysler factory.

“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’ll do a press avail, thanks,” the Illinois senator said.

It caused an uproar, only dwarfed later by those uproaring that their first uproar didn’t crack the mainstream news media.

White women are pissed off. Hold on to your fucking hats. Pissed off, older white women blame Obama directly, “He’s so arrogant.” or they blame everyone else.

Obama’s sweetie-gate is a great example.

“How Obama’s campaign has treated Hillary will not be forgotten,” one 55-year-old woman was quoted in a RealClearPolitics.com column. “I will vote for McCain if Hillary is not the nominee.”

They are pissed off at the party, and I hope for more reasons than just four…as in, the four Michigan delegates the Democratic National Committee assigned from “uncommitted” to Obama.

“Many of us feel slighted,” said a 76-year-old woman in the column. “We feel that years of supporting the party is unimportant, that we are to sit down and shut up — but be sure to vote Democratic in November.”

And oh God!  The media!

There’s been a lot of ugly in the Democratic race. I think it’s seasoned Obama in a way John Kerry lacked. But that theory will only be supported with a Democratic win in November.

Which means Hillary Clinton needs to stop acting like some of these old whining women who have so identified with her.  One wonders why these militant hangers-on haven’t identified with Clinton’s marriage.

The uproar over ‘sexism’ is about expectation. Expectations are usually a sordid (or fucked up) business.  So in considering expectation, why do these people let Mark Penn get a pass, but want to vote McCain in 2008?

Penn was responsible for Hillary’s so-called aura of invincibility a year ago, (and they call Obama arrogant?) and was fired from the mantle of chief strategist when he was double-dealing on a trade deal with the Colombian government- a deal his other presidential client opposed.

(Even Karl Rove knew not to double dip with clients.)

He could’ve been fired for incompetence, like not having a strategy after Super Tuesday (on Feb. 5), failing to understand proportional allocation, and that 2008 would be about change, not experience.

Hillary Clinton did not lose because she was a woman. Her campaign was not lost on account of her womanhood, but her manhood– the moronic company she kept for too long ($13 million too long).

But it’s over now.  And Hillary could make it all better, if she wanted.  Hillary Clinton is presented with an opportunity to do for women and men what Obama has done for race.  Women like the ones quoted above ought to stop cataloging crap and think about what really matters, like solving problems and getting a Democrat in the White House.

And Clinton is the one person who could move her supporters over the hump. She can be honest and assertive (1995 address at the U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing), intelligent and wise (1969 Wellesley commencement address), and delicate (tableside confessional in New Hampshire). A speech that amounts to an amalgam of all Hillary can be, has been, and wants to become will be a home run for all.

It’s noble that Hillary stayed in the race to finish what she started. It’s tragic that her supporters would finish an Obama administration before it started.