Voting for Bernie? You’re Spitting in Your Sisters' Faces

[Luminous Animal]

This is the kind of condescending crap that will drive this old feminist and young feminists and many feminists in between away from Hillary.

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/

Instead of repaying their sisters for the paths they opened for them, millennial women are spitting in their faces, turning their backs on Hillary and complaining about the lack of diversity in the Oscars.

INo question has preoccupied the progressive camp in America more in recent months than the choice between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Ostensibly, as an Israeli who is only sojourning in New York for a few years, I ought to sit quietly on the sidelines and hold my tongue while my Democratic friends fight among themselves. But in reality, as a feminist of 45, the age which, according to polls, is the dividing line between the level-headed Hillary supporters and the cool Bernie fans, I’m not really capable of sitting on the fence and ignoring what’s happening.

As I always tell my children, there’s no such thing as a perfect candidate. The disadvantages and advantages of both are fairly clear. He’s an elderly socialist who sprung up out of nowhere; she carries the baggage of too many incidents from the past that don’t photograph well. He’s attractive because of his captivating passion; she embodies the promise of another historic candidacy that, by its very existence, will move the hearts of half of humanity.

[retrowire]

1. ....

"she embodies the promise of another historic candidacy that, by its very existence, will move the hearts of half of humanity."

All because of her gender?

*facepalm*

[Luminous Animal]

4. It gets more pathetic every day.

These lectures sap commitment. I am 58 years old and have been heavily involved with feminism activism most of adult life. In the groups that I have involved in, there has always been a generational challenge.

But to pull this on the national stage? To dis our youth? To diminish their commitment? Nuh uh.

[napi21]

2. I'm a 72 yo white lady, and although I grew up during the feminist revolution,

I would NEVER vote for a candidate just they were female. That's absurd. I believe the feminist movement has succeeded because lots of people will vote for whichever candidate they feel is the best representative of their beliefs, and now NOT discount any BECAUSE they are female.

These kind of words MIGHT have worked when we were all burning our bras, but no more.

[Zorra]

3. YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN, OR I'M CALLIN' THE COPS! I MEAN IT!

[Heddi]

5. When I say I don't want the government inside my vagina, I mean for ANY REASON

abortion, gender politics, religious freedom ---

Voting for someone solely because they have a vagina is *just* as awful as NOT voting for someone solely because they have a vagina.

I am a nurse. 98% of the other RN's I work with are women. They range in age from mid 20's to late 60's. They self-identify as liberal, conservative, and "not political at all, I don't pay attention to those things." They come from the northeast, the midwest, the south, the west coast. NOT ONE SINGLE ONE OF THEM likes Hillary Clinton, and Let me tell you these women that I am proud and honored to wotk with do more for women in abject poverty that Hillary Clinton would ever hope to do.

Get the fuck out of my uterus, politicians.

[Luminous Animal]

6. Nurse's rock.

[Yurovsky]

8. Thanks... Nurses saved my life when I was 15...

bad accident, long hospitalization. While doctors made daily visits, it was the nurses on my floor that watched over me and literally nursed me back to health.

It was many years ago, but I can never forget the fact that some great nurses made all the difference in my life, and let me live many years longer than I might have without their care.

And thanks for feeling the Bern!!!

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

12. You really rock...

in a rockin' profession. I mean...for an atheist You really do

[roguevalley]

7. you know what? It took old broads like me and the kids coming up that changed the

world and made feminism. The talking heads, Steinem, Clinton and all the other ivory tower femmes take the credit when they chatted together about shit that didn't matter. It was millions of women and good men that made feminism what it is. Fuck this shit.

[Luminous Animal]

9. I am pissed off that women are trying to shame other women. Especially young women.

[roguevalley]

11. agreed. I am impressed with young women every day where I work.

[Yurovsky]

10. And a lot of single moms working 2 jobs & raising kids...

In the '60s, '70s, & '80s while the ladies you mentioned live like rock stars.

My late mother worked in a male dominated world and suffered the slings & arrows pioneers typically faced. And she made sure we were fed, clothed,a me had a roof over our head.

Hillary? Not so much ... She was born on 3rd base and thinks she hit a triple.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. Young millennial feminist here.

I came of age believing in the strong, self-determined feminism. The article in the OP is the antithesis of that feminism and I refuse to submit to it.

[Wilms]

13. Wow! n/t

[Fumesucker]

14. Adding insult to injury, they want you to *pay* to read that claptrap

I'm going to pay to read your ridiculous opinion?