Dana Locia, a 29-year-old labor lawyer in Brooklyn, describes herself as a pretty big Obama

supporter.

She worked for a year at Michelle Obama's public ally Chicago, where she met Barack

a few times.

She called him the most inspiring, amazing person, a different kind of politician.

Of Hillary Clinton, whom Locia supported in her Senate runs, she says, I just think

she acted badly during this campaign.

And yet, as Locia wrote in a recent email, I've been really bothered by what I perceive

as sexism among some male Obama supporters and have spent hours defending Clinton.

A lot of guys just can't stand Hillary, and it's the intensity of their irritation with

her that disturbs me more than their devotion to Obama.

This riveting Democratic primary campaign has provided us with its own stock characters.

There are the young, daily show watching Obama maniacs, and now you just fill in the H.

Chop Voters for the daily show.

Everybody, Obama maniacs getting over their irony addiction by falling ill.

But yes, by falling earnestly in love with the senator from Illinois.

There are the pissed off second wave feminists, uptight and out of touch, howling as their dream

of seeing a woman in the oval office fades, and then there are the young women caught

between them.

According to the media script, these cool young customers have embodied their elders'

worst nightmare of a generation that takes feminism's victories for granted by throwing

Hillary Clinton over for her challenger.

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