It's no accident that Comey's tossing out the FBI manual with regard to Hillary,

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and disregarding all historical precedent, in inserting himself right into the peak of a Presidential election.

What is a one-word description of his behavior? SEXIST.

She is an unprecedented candidate -- the first woman who is likely to become President -- and the witch hunt is on.

Comey and the Rethugs in Congress are responding to Hillary as some men always do -- with the sexism and misogyny that tells them they are allowed to treat women differently than men; that the normal rules don't apply to women or to their treatment of this woman.

Simply put, they feel ENTITLED to make up new rules as they go along, faced with the special threat they unconsciously perceive in Hillary -- not just a Democrat, but the most powerful female Democrat in history.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/fear-of-a-female-president/497564/

To understand this reaction, start with what social psychologists call “precarious manhood” theory. The theory posits that while womanhood is typically viewed as natural and permanent, manhood must be “earned and maintained.” Because it is won, it can also be lost. Scholars at the University of South Florida and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported that when asked how someone might lose his manhood, college students rattled off social failures like “losing a job.” When asked how someone might lose her womanhood, by contrast, they mostly came up with physical examples like “a sex-change operation” or “having a hysterectomy.”


Among the emasculations men most fear is subordination to women. (Some women who prize traditional gender roles find male subordination threatening too.) This fear isn’t wholly irrational. A 2011 study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that men who have female supervisors earn less, and enjoy less prestige, than men whose bosses are male.

Given the anxieties that powerful women provoke, it’s not surprising that both men and women judge them more harshly than they judge powerful men. A 2010 study by Victoria L. Brescoll and Tyler G. Okimoto found that people’s views of a fictional male state senator did not change when they were told he was ambitious. When told that a fictional female state senator was ambitious, however, men and women alike “experienced feelings of moral outrage,” such as contempt, anger, and disgust.

But while both men and women are often critical of powerful women, men are more likely to react aggressively. A study published last year by researchers at Northwestern, Washington State, and Bocconi University, in Italy, reported that men negotiating with a female hiring manager demanded more money than those negotiating with a male one. Another recent study, this one by University of South Florida researchers, showed that after men had their gender identity threatened, they placed riskier bets. Feeling subordinate to women may also lead men to act recklessly in their private lives. According to the University of Connecticut’s Christin Munsch, men who are economically dependent on their wives are more likely than others to be unfaithful.

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