I think this is naive. Hillary may have taken sides against other women in her history, but if you think Obama has never abandoned anyone in his quest for power you are even more naive.

Condemning a heterosexual woman for the extra-sexual conduct of her husband is just as outdated as insisting she stand by her man. You may think she should have cut and run in her marriage, but that ethic is also clearly a product of the one man, one woman formula. So it's a wash who is feministically correct. It's her choice and it's her business who she sleeps with and lives with. Especially given that she's not out prosecuting sex crimes and has NOT committed a crime by staying with a philanderer.

Your analysis reeks of the double standard I addressed just moments ago:

Obama can "pass" as black or white, and does so when he so chooses, and he is adept at it. No woman can switch hit by passing as a man or a woman, at will when the situation demands it, or whether she wants to or not--the majority of this nation's citizen's voters will not let her. That is the number one reason so many hate Hilary--not misogyny, but gender stereotyping. As a woman you are taught that you can have one or the other but not both. You can have a career but you must be willing to be a castrating bitch. Since she was the supportive wife and mom therefore we MUST deny her this opportunity. That's how the gender mythologizing goes. It's not that different from demanding that non-American WASPs give up their unique cultural identity.

It is an illustration of how and why gender roles are MORE primary to our culture than race, because we are forced into an appropriate gender role before we even leave the home or womb...

. . .As a married female with a child, Hillary is politically considered greedy. How dare she want to be the First Lady and the President? What an upstart bitch! She must have lied somewhere in her past to want both these things. Unfortunately, we still have not gotten past the view that citizens first and foremost must be men.

Maybe some women see Hillary as hopelessly loyal to her role as wife/victim or duplicitous for desiring both roles. If so, you have been swallowing the conservative religious repackaging of her hook line and sinker. We are all complex beings and marriage for life is a difficult task under the best of circumstances.

You may be uncomfortable with why or whether she takes advantage of her husband's fame. Not me--marriage is not a piece of cake and I wouldn't have been in it for 30 years if there was not some advantage beyond being a second rate citizen. Men take advantage of marriage--they get regular sex, kids with their name, and household services for free.

You can expect more from women (the sisterhood ideal), but that does not mean you should hold them to a higher standard of punishment just because your ideals for them are higher.