The New York Times interviews Hillary's classmates and provides a fascinating glimpse into a generation of women who enshrined their victimhood and sense of entitlement.

Some of Mrs. Clinton’s classmates say they take personally criticism that she is “shrill” or “strident.”

“I hear these anti-Hillary attacks by men, especially right-wing men, and I feel like it’s just as much an attack on me,” said Cheryl Lynn Brierton, an in-house lawyer for the California courts. “It’s an effect of intelligence that you come across as intense, that you have strong views. I’ve always felt that the way she is singled out and attacked is very indicative of how society reacts to smart women.”

When she herself started working, Ms. Brierton said, she had to tone herself down and find a voice that would not be off-putting. So when she hears criticism of Mrs. Clinton, she said, “I’m constantly thinking, There but for the grace of God go I.”

I had to grin when I read this. As an ill-mannered lout from way back, I have valuable insights to offer on "shrillness and stridency".

Ladies, its not your sex, its your attitude.

No one likes insensitive, abrupt, condescending know-it-alls--its a simple fact of human sociality.

The difference is, people like me never had the ideological fall-back position of blaming it on my gender. After decades of remediation, I'm much less of a jerk than I started out as--largely because I had enough sense to realize that being a jerk was bad for the career.

Some people of course never quite catch on. They remain jerks throughout their lives because of other emotional dysfunction that doesn't allow them to acknowledge their own responsibility for how other people are reacting to them.

Feminists on the other hand, have an ideological excuse for their social pathology. With an ideology, even otherwise emotionally healthy individuals can justify egregious actions and attitudes. Just when you think it might be your problem, the "sisters" reaffirm your jerkiness.

As you read the article, their is the distinct sense that its simply "Hillary's turn", that its "time" for a woman president. No talk of merit here--its an entitlement; owed to woman for millenia of abuse at the hands of men. That may convince Hillary's classmates at Wellesley, but I doubt the country at large will buy it.