Battle of the sexes

摘要

The signs of battle have been apparent for much of the year. First, a flurry when a candidate's wife was described as having "never worked a day in her life"; then a storm when a student was called a "slut" for saying her health-care plan should include free contraception; and finally the arrival of new phrases in the political lexicon such as "legitimate rape" and "mandatory transvaginal ultrasound".