“It would be nice to see comments sticking to valid points instead of ALWAYS going after women on the basis of ‘looks.’”<br />Mirya R. Holman, an assistant professor of political science at Tulane University who studies gender and politics, said, “This does mimic what conservative women have said in the past: ‘You liberals think you’re so enlightened,<br />but we still get people saying vile things about us.’”<br />Jennifer Palmieri, the director of communications for the Clinton campaign, who memorably clashed with Ms. Conway at a postelection forum at Harvard, also sees echoes of the sexism<br />that dogged her candidate in the attacks on Ms. Conway.<br />“If women were more united and speaking up at this behavior, including when it’s perpetrated by the left, we’d all be a lot better off.”<br />Ms. Conway suggested in an interview with The Daily Caller<br />that there would have been more outrage at the comments if she had been a liberal woman, adding, “And it is not just if I were a liberal woman, but if I were a pro-abortion one.” Ms. Conway did not respond to a message left with her assistant requesting comment for this article.<br />“I think some of the reticence that might be coming across in not a huge chorus of defense of Kellyanne Conway in the face of these sexist comments is the feeling<br />that she doesn’t have our back,” said Gillian Thomas, a senior staff lawyer of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
