To the Editor:

“I Am Burning With Fury and Grief Over Elizabeth Warren. And I Am Not Alone,” by Sarah Smarsh (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, March 6):

I am an Elizabeth Warren supporter. I share the grief. But I think the tendency to blame any failure by any woman politician on misogyny is misguided and possibly harmful to the advancement of women as a whole. If every failure is the result of misogyny, then there is no reason to consider the candidate’s own actions, choices or other circumstances. There are many reasons Ms. Warren didn’t do better. I don’t think misogyny was one of them.

Ms. Warren proved to be an agile thinker and an articulate orator, and attracted both men and women in pretty equal numbers. But she was largely occupying a slot that Bernie Sanders, with a four-year running head start, already occupied.

We are ready for a female president. And perhaps Ms. Smarsh’s grandmother will live to see it next election.

John Dorchester

Media, Pa.

To the Editor:

Thank you, Sarah Smarsh, for making me feel a little less alone. I, too, am burning with fury and grief over Elizabeth Warren’s fate. The news that she suspended her campaign knocked the air out of me. It is beyond depressing that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are my only options. Oh, I will dutifully vote for whichever one of them wins the nomination, but I may not vote at all in the primary.