Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has just suggested that young women are supporting Bernie Sanders because they are looking to impress boys:Feminist activist Gloria Steinem on Friday suggested that young women support Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders over rival Hillary Clinton because they want to meet boys.Seriously?
On HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher asked Steinem why Clinton, who has campaigned on the historic nature of her candidacy, was losing the young female vote.
“I don’t mean to over-generalize … but men tend to get more conservative because they gain power as they age, and women get more radical because they lose power as they age,” Steinem responded.
“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.
After a lifetime of supporting equality, you blithely dismiss the attitudes of women as some sort of attempt at catching the right man?
She is saying that young women have no agency of their all.
I understand how some people are excited about the possibility of Hillary Clinton being the first woman President, but this is nuts.
The bigger picture is that identity politics is morally bankrupt, but I'm not a big picture kind of guy.
I'll just call lame beyond belief.
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