Albright also told a room full of people at a Hillary Clinton rally that “there is a special place in hell for women who don’t support each other”. The reality was even worse among millennials, with 82 percent of women under 30 supporting the Vermont senator.
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“I absolutely believe what I said, that women should help one another, but this was the wrong context and the wrong time to use that line”, she continued.
New Hampshire was undeniably a blow for Clinton, who won the state in 2008 thanks to the women’s vote, but she brushed off the setback on Thursday night.
In the context of Clinton’s race against Sen. “So one might assume I know better than to tell a large number of women to go to hell”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, on February 11.
She also maintained her view on the importance of women continuing to help one another, especially when women still make less on the dollar than men and paid family leave is not a right across the country. When women are empowered to make decisions, society benefits.
Albright said it would be easier to obtain gender equality with a female president and that Clinton is a “viable female presidential candidate”.
Steinem apologized after suggesting young women aren’t serious with their politics and were simply enticed to the Sanders camp because “the boys are with Bernie”.
Her statement prompted New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, who is gay, to ask whether there would be a “place in hell” for him if he does not support a gay candidate.
She then changed the direction and indicated that even though majority of female voters supported her rival Bernie Sanders, it does not change her goal of empowering everyone.
“There’s a weird strain of thought swirling around Clinton’s campaign: that we should vote for her because she’s a woman”.
Clinton’s “strategy was pretty simple, it struck me”, Shields said. Put simply, Sanders appeals to young voters because of leftist policies that are relevant to the Millennial situation, while Clinton appears rigid and removed from the younger generation.
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Telling women how to think, or what to do seems like the complete opposite of what feminism should be.
