This is the second debate where Hillary Clinton has mentioned that she can stand the heat and that she “like[s] being in the kitchen.” Both times she has used the phrase when speaking about her entrance into the “all boys club of presidential politics.”

The choice of words is a carefully scripted reminder that Senator Clinton is woman. It strives to paint a picture of her in a frilly dress, starched apron, pulling cookies out of the oven and pouring a glass of milk.

Hillary also repeated her oft touted phrase that she is not being attacked because she is a woman but because she is in the lead. (Pause here for the clapping of planted applauders.) She has no answer for the fact that her husband and others in her campaign have painted her as a woman. She firmly declares that she is not running her campaign on the fact that she is a woman but on the fact that she is the most qualified.

But she ends with a touching story from her adventures on the campaign trail. She tells of the women who flock to her appearances and bring their daughters. She says that she has shaken hands with 95 year old women who tell her: “When I was born women were not able to vote. I want to live to see a woman in the White House.”

So, in summary Hillary’s position on being a woman is like her position on everything else. She doesn’t expect people to think of her as a woman–but remember she likes the kitchen. She doesn’t want to be attacked because she’s a woman but don’t try to take the number one slot away from her. And most of all, she doesn’t want to be voted for because she is a woman but don’t forget all those really old women who won’t be able to die if she doesn’t get elected.