Nice piece from the always interesting Barbara Ehrenreich. Once again the parallels between the black struggle and feminist struggle are just stunning. Ehrenreich pillories this idea that it's some sort of noble accomplishment to show that women can be as vile and nasty as men. Pillory is the wrong word. She recognizes that the idea of innate female superiority is a myth which is ultimately destructive, and its good that Hillary is helping to rid us of that. But Ehrenreich rightly points out that she shouldn't be lionized for it.
Was I saying something about parallels? Oh yes--this reminds me of how people often celebrate Bob Johnson as a black hero because he showed he could be just ruthless, cold, and calculating as any other white capitalist. Or folks who celebrate Frank Lucas because he showed that blacks too could be organized criminals. Yay. It's also the OJ reflex--defending and celebrating otherwise loathsome people, because the people who run the world are allowed thier share of otherwise loathsome people. There's some truth here--a true end to racism/sexism must include an end to noble savagery, or noble femininity. But the people who push such an end shouldn't be confused with people who actually raise the bar for morality for all people.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
I had thought about this in terms of the parallels between women and black folks. I've been telling people this about HIllary, who is trying to overcompensate for the fact that people may think a woman would be weak on terror. The Thatcher effect, if you will.
But you absolutely nailed it in your 2nd paragraph. Beautiful to see someone put into words what I have felt and thought but not quite been able to accurately express. Frank Lucas, OJ, Bob Johnson? Yall can have them negros. Hollywood really tried to play that angle up too with the line about: A BLACK MAN DID WHAT THE MAFIA COULDN'T IN 100 YEARS!! I'm I supposed to be proud of that as I look around at my neighborhood, literally 2 blocks away from where Frank Lucas helped destroy my people? Unfortunately, some of us wont be so discerning