Gee, someone describes her as tough using a typical piece of male anatomy and that makes her "right wing"? As Demi Moore said, "suck my d***". (Just quoting her, not intending this as an epithet).

And until the last week, I never heard the word "pansy" associated with gay. Weak and effeminate, yes. I.e. girly men, to quote Arnie. So how does this make Hillary "right wing"? She either gets ascribed with society's preferred male qualities or she gets slammed for being too much a woman. Or she gets both - hysterical, that time of month, etc. Remember when she fought off the 4 other candidates and the biased Russert? "Playing the gender card". Oh well, you can't please everyone, so you gotta please yourself.

First of all, I've always loved the term "testicular fortitude". In this case it's a compliment of the strongest kind in the language of the people she's targeting. The language of politics and power is full of references to male genitalia. What do you expect? After all, she's aiming her message at white working class guys.

I'm a second-generation feminist, and have worked in male-dominated professions as a gender pioneer all my life. Feminized descriptors at are almost always disparaging. When someone says I have balls, they mean I have guts in a good way.

All contests in American life are gendered. Someday those white guys will have grown up with women at work and not be so comfortable with references to genitalia. But not yet.