Sean Spicer, the communications director for the Republican National Committee, commented on the gender gap:
I find it offensive that the Democratic National Committee is using a term like that to describe policy differences. It’s not only bad, but it’s downright pathetic they would use a term like ‘war’ when there are millions of Americans who actually have engaged in a real war. To use a term like that borders on unpatriotic.
He also repeated it on Twitter:
h/t Joan McCarter on Daily Kos