Gloria Steinem: "Young women support Sanders to attract men"

[JPnoodleman]

Maybe I'm not up and up on the front lines of Gender activism, but isn't Gloria Steinem engaging in slut shaming? I read her words and just read "You only support Sanders because you're a filthy WHORE! SLUT!" among other things. Beyond the laugh-ability of this charge, that female Sanderites are in it for sex with male Sanderites, I suppose she thinks women under 45 are en-mass FeelingTheBern somewhere down south?
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“So it’s kind of not fair to measure most women by the standard of most men, because they’re going to get more activist as they get older,” she added.

“And when you’re young, you’re thinking, ‘Where are the boys?’ The boys are with Bernie.”

Maher joked that if he had chalked up Bernie’s support among young women to their desire to meet boys, Steinem would have slapped him.

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[HassleCat]

1. Maybe she's right

We are a devastatingly handsome bunch!

[winter is coming]

11. Modest, too. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

2. My two daughters have men already. The sexism from the Hillary camp is unreal.

Between her and Albright they are making the campaign look like a bunch of 50s housewives.

[exboyfil]

28. My younger daughter (high school senior) is not dating right now

She supports Sanders (we both went to the caucus together for Sanders). My older daughter, a college senior, is engaged and supports Sanders even though her fiance is conservative and did not caucus in either party.

This is really an offensive comment. I plan to ask my daughters about it.

Still not as offensive as saying your eternal soul is dammed if you do not vote for Clinton.

Albright and Steinem are not helping. There are a lot of things that they could have said to help Clinton. They have hurt their prestige with these comments.

[merrily]

3. What a sexist thing for a Steinem to say. Reading that icons like her and Nader are saying

really poor things these days is sad.

[JPnoodleman]

16. Roughly, Nader and Steinem have both done fairly well for themselves...

With Steinem at 3mil and Nader at 4mil.

I am not saying wealth = corruption but for supposed Radicals they sure are sitting pretty.

[southerncrone]

4. That has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

I was impressed by Gloria Steinem when I was coming of age. She was a hero to us young girls.
But this reeks of desperation.

[JPnoodleman]

15. Money and connections must have changed her idealism a tad /nt

[lostnfound]

25. You have my sympathy

It sucks when heroes turn bad. I don't mind that she supports Hillary - but chalking up Bernie support to lust for the boys is just beyond the pale stupid.

[JPnoodleman]

32. Aren't Gloria and Hillary longtime friends? /nt

[Duckhunter935]

5. wow, the sexism

from that side is just astounding. Not to mention if women do not support Hillary, there is a special place in hell for them. Sickening.

[CharlotteVale]

6. Now that you mention it...

[jalan48]

7. So Gloria, does that mean young women who support Hillary are trying to attract women?

[6chars]

8. Those kids and their hormones

[Doctor_J]

9. with friends like Steinem and Albright, Hillary doesn't need enemies

Yipes

[Mufaddal]

10. That time Steinem endorsed Bernie and granted him the title of "honorary woman"

In the fall of 1996, locked in a tough re-election fight against Republican Susan Sweetser, then-Rep. Sanders got a big boost when feminist writer and activist Gloria Steinem came to Burlington. At the time, Sweetser was running negative ads attacking Sanders' liberal positions, and so the Sanders campaign held an event to highlight his support among progressive women. An opening act, a former state senator, told the audience that "a feminist is a person who challenges the power structure of our country" and "Bernie Sanders is that kind of feminist." When it was Steinem's turn, she started off with an announcement: "I'm only here today to make Bernie Sanders an honorary woman."

In his memoir, Outsider in the House, Sanders, who went on to beat Sweetser comfortably, called the event "the nicest moment of the campaign."

With video: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/01/time-bernie-sanders-became-honorary-woman

[retrowire]

22. lmao she endorsed him and helped him

win against a woman.

what the hell was Gloria thinking when she made that statement?

[QC]

12. Soon she will be out on the porch yelling at the goddam kids

to get off her goddam lawn.

This is disappointing, to say the least.

[840high]

13. Maybe she is already.

[Mnemosyne]

14. Sadly, Ms. Steinem, it seems you are supporting Hillary simply because she is a woman. Sad. nt

[JPnoodleman]

18. Steinem is rich and with rich friends running for office...

Hillary is her friend and doing a favor to her friend. Plus its hard to rationalize an explanation for why Hillary isn't literally being heralded by all women everywhere as the reincarnation of Gaia and every female Goddess ever from history.

The Rationalizations are strong with Steinem and indeed the whole Hillary camp. The fact that young women aren't falling in line is not surprising, but for them it is shocking.

[MiaCulpa]

19. I think someone dropped acid in her oatmeal. eom

[Lazy Daisy]

20. Apology from Hillary?

As a woman I am deeply offended by the statements made by both Steinem and Albright.
That as a woman I shouldn't have a choice in who I vote for? That if I choose to vote for anybody except Hillary I'm thinking with my libido and not my head. The heart vs. head thing was bad enough, but this?

Your wrong Hillary, if I was voting with my heart and not my head I would vote for you because you are a woman. Instead I'm voting for someone who speaks to me not at me. Someone who realizes that my rights as a woman can never be fulfilled until my rights as a human being are. That under the current status quo I will never realize the economic freedoms my parents did and that my children are destined to be impoverished. I weep for my grandchildren, for their future is bleak at best.

What the hell has happened to the leaders of woman from my youth? Fine wines can turn to vinegar.

[Marty McGraw]

21. What a load of Hoey...

We all know girls' distaste for boys especially in their early years! add that to the independence of driving... and watch out....

[99th_Monkey]

23. OMG! Gloria and Medeline have both come completely "Unhinged for Hillary!"

They should take it on the road .. the "Unhinged for Hillary" Tour

Come on you sex-crazed sluts, ditch those BernieBros NOW, or you'll burn in Hell.
Change your ways NOW and vote for Hillary. <--She is a woman, just like you.

[Kalidurga]

24. LOL

I bet she was serious when she said it too. LOL, that just makes it more funny.

[elehhhhna]

26. She's lost her mind.

[mucifer]

27. So women are unable to think for ourselves? That's very feminist of you Glo.

[fredamae]

29. Both "Icons" have

insulted the intellect of women...not just Young women, but All women.

How can it be that They go around stating Women should be Trusted to make decisions about Our own Bodies and then say we Can't be trusted to make our Own choices about Who We want as POTUS???!!!???

[JPnoodleman]

30. pointing out the inherent slut-shaming of the accusation got me banned in Clinton Group...

Should I feel honored?

Also, it is all a rationalization. Gloria is engaged in a fun game in which consistency and implications doesn't matter. Basically this is a "We have always been at war with East Asia!" moment.

[fredamae]

33. I don't know about "honor"

but this act demonstrates the denial of fact- aka: The Truth Hurts.

It's that "game part" that Pisses me off. I suggest that "we, the people" are exhausted from and Finished Being the game pieces on the "Political Game Board".
I suggest further, that "we, the people" will "checkmate" them all in the end

[Kip Humphrey]

31. Bernie Bros, meet Sander Sistas! Per "Woman-President-Before-I-Die" Gloria, we are going to have a

gooood time!

WIN, Bernie, WIN!

[mother earth]

34. A misogynistic statement coming from the icon of modern feminism?

Another WTF moment brought to you by confused feminism, the reigning queen herself.

[JPnoodleman]

35. We live in strange times...

The old Chinese curse rings true "May you live to see interesting times,"...

A lot of old Idols and former centers of power are crumbling and the facades are coming off.

[mother earth]

38. I agree.

[arcane1]

36. Of all the brain-dead excuses I've seen to explain away support for Sanders, this is the worst.

If a man had dared to even suggest such a thing, they would be a mess of scattered body parts by now, and rightfully so.

[ladyVet]

37. I wonder what us old women are supporting him for? Senior sexy times?

I've admired Gloria Steinem all my life. Until now. Now, she is dead to me. She can cry on Hillary's shoulder when Ms. Inevitable loses the primaries and becomes yet another "could'a been a contenda". They can wipe their eyes on all their money, before Bernie raises the tax rates and they have to start paying for all that privilege they've enjoyed off our backs.

Fuck her, fuck Madeline Albright, and fuck anybody else who thinks they can tell me how to vote (are your ears ringing, not-so-dear ex husband?). My vagina and I have made our choice, thank you very much.

[mother earth]

39. :) I totally agree.