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2 comments:
How did Hillary abuse feminism? She'd didn't run the best campaign; that's for sure; but I don't get your assertion. In fact, I think it's the young women who don't do a GD thing to help other women because they take everything they have now for granted that have "abused" feminism.
Steinem’s Op-ed in the New York Times came, I believe, in that small window between Iowa and New Hampshire, making the case that the cause of Hillary Clinton was the cause of all women, and that a vote for anyone other than Clinton was a vote against all women. She enabled Clinton to respond to any and all valid criticism as sexist in nature, and to consistently wave the bloody shirt of feminism when pandering for votes. I have a hunch Steinem realized this somewhere along the way, and that is why she was so quick to publicly announce her support for Barack Obama—days before Clinton herself even properly conceded the race.
I’ve said it before, and I’m not alone in thinking this: Hillary Clinton makes a bad test case for the contemporary American woman. Her political fortunes are tied to Bill, for better or worse. For all the qualifications she may have in her own right (and I am not saying they are not considerable) she rode into that senate seat, primarily, on the strength of the name “Clinton”. The attitude of the campaign was that she would stroll to the nomination in much the same fashion. When Super Tuesday ended in a draw and they suddenly faced an opponent who was much better organized and prepared to fight on, Hillary looked for an excuse.
Sexism—whether it was real, imagined, or outright made-up—was all too easy to point to.
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