After a little backlash, she tried to back out of the comment, saying, “In a case of talk-show Interruptus, I misspoke on the Bill Maher show recently, and apologize for what’s been misinterpreted as implying young women aren’t serious in their politics”. “But that’s the generational divide and it’s led to creating a narrative about who is more feminist, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton”.
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But Albright’s were not the only remarks to provoke blowback.
Younger women, however, presented a contrast. To prove the point, I want to turn you to an excellent article I read earlier today at Naked Capitalism, titled The Pressure on Warren to Support Hillary Clinton… After all, she may honestly believe that millennial women are politically active, but her statement failed to mention why she would suggest that female Sanders supporters are just following “the boys”.
She ended resolutely: “I don’t know anything other to do than just keep forging through it, and just keep taking the slings and arrows that come with being a woman in the arena”. Honest to goodness, I mean, people can’t say anything without offending somebody.
But, judging by the comments, not everyone is feeling like Steinem’s apology was very, well, apologetic.
Andrew Burton/Getty Images Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally in New Hampshire.
Are young women supporting Bernie Sanders just to meet young guys? In addition to the concerns generated from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s support for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, Clinton insisted that “Russia is trying to move the boundaries of the post-World War II Europe”, evidenced by its annexation of Crimea in March 2014. She contends that women get more radical as they age and power slips out of their grasp.
“It does matter that we have at all levels of the government people who have a wide range of experience”, Lidinsky said.
“There has never been a president who knows what it’s like to menstruate, be pregnant, or give birth”, Kate Harding, 41, wrote in the online women’s magazine Dame shortly after Clinton declared her candidacy. On the other hand, women over 65 represent the only cohort that overwhelmingly prefers Clinton to Sanders.
CHUCK TODD: Right, Starbucks cups I think had it on there. Aging feminist Gloria Steinem (who infamously defended Bill Clinton against female accusers) is equally off-key.
Hillary Clinton is now struggling with young women voters, and it is not hard to see why. Steinem, the legendary women’s rights activist, and Albright, the first woman to serve as secretary of state, each in recent comments attempted to cajole young women to Clinton’s side with suggestions that they simply weren’t thinking if they stood for Sanders, and against a first woman president.
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The blowback from these statements brought an emergency late Sunday morning Times dispatch.
