“Like my fellow young feminist women, I recognize that voting for a woman because she’s a woman is sexist, just like voting for a man because he’s a man is also sexist”, said Javidi.
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During an otherwise-standard interview on Real Time with Bill Maher, she gets into trouble when Maher pushes her on why younger women are more supportive of Bernie Sanders than they are of Hillary Clinton. And when you’re younger, you think: ‘Where are the boys?
Steinem expressed her support for Clinton’s campaign back in October.
While Sanders has outpaced Clinton among white women here, he has yet to show any strength among a more diverse pool of women. The lack of support from younger women is something that’s clearly gotten under the skin of some Clinton supporters, particularly women who are of her age and stage. She traversed the state’s snow-covered highways with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, in a push to maintain her edge in national polls and reassure the Democratic establishment backing her campaign.
But other attempts to court young women voters have not gone so well.
But Clinton still remains ahead in the polls with a narrow margin of 44 per cent, to Sanders’ 42. He said a “good night” from his campaign would “show the American people that the voters in New Hampshire understand that this country needs a political revolution”.
Clinton has spoken out on women’s issues for decades and most famously declared at a 1995 World Conference in Beijing that “human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights”.
“There would be no Marissa Meyer, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina, if it were not for the work, the road that she has paved, she and Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem, these icons of the women’s movement”, said Saal.
The surprising claim had been in response to Maher’s question as why she thought her preferred candidate was not doing better with young women.
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“She does need to be careful about her surrogates and the people who are talking for her. We don’t want it to be [that] young women don’t know what they are talking about; that’s not fair”, Dittmar said. “Well that all depends on how you define feminism”.
