Why Are Millennial Women Gravitating to Bernie Sanders?

[big_dog]

There are already several theories circulating to explain the gap between Sanders and Clinton when it comes to young women.

Feminist luminary Gloria Steinem said just last Friday on Bill Maher’s show (then somewhat un-said Sunday) that young women are just going where “the boys” are.

Author Jill Fillipovic followed up with a riff on Steinem’s thinking in Cosmopolitan, arguing that, “In this primary, Sanders is the guy stuff. Clinton is the girl stuff.”

She argued that young women often feel pressured to make a show of liking cool guy stuff instead of lame girl stuff.
https://newrepublic.com/article/129483/millennial-women-gravitating-bernie-sanders

[valerief]

1. This is lame. You know the real reason. They like Bernie's message, his consistency, and

his historical good judgment. Do you know why? Cuz SMART. YOUNG WOMEN SMART.

[HooptieWagon]

2. No mystery.

The issues Bernie is talking about are issues important to them. And Hillary's surrogates insulting and talking down to them isn't helping her cause.

[litlbilly]

3. I think it's simpler than that, authenticity, honesty and integrity. thats the main reason

[big_dog]

8. sounds like it

Speaking at a New Hampshire rally Monday night, actress and model Emily Ratajkowski (who is 24 years old) put it like this:


“I want a female president so that I can say to my daughter one day, you too can become president of the United States. I believe in that symbolic importance. But I have seen symbolism in election, symbolism that fails the people that so desperately need the action to make change. I want my first female president to be more than a symbol, I want her to have politics that can revolutionize.”

[SDjack]

4. Bernie has beautiful mind -- that is the attraction.

[napi21]

5. They are disgusted with politics as usual. They're very upset that

college students have to go into debt the size of a mortgage to get a degree, they see how money rules, and they want to be heard in political arena. Like it or not, Hillary is part of the establishment.

[roguevalley]

6. these are ivory tower fems who didn't do the heavy lifting in the field

like millions of women who did make feminism and changed the world, but take the credit. Fuck them.

[willing dwarf]

7. Out of touch with the reality of ordinary lives

The issues that Gloria Steinem, Madeline Albright, and Hillary Clinton confronted 50 years ago are not the issues that women confront today at all. Shoot, even the concept of gender is going out the window, so it's not like women as a group are going to line up behind their mothers and grandmothers and blindly follow their lead.

Young women today are much freer to make their way in the world, but the world is no easier for them than for their brothers or boyfriends. They are each pulling on their own oar and not expecting to get an easier ride because they are women. -- So, in the same way, they are less likely to follow a leader because of their gender.

My 23 yr old daughter and I were talking about the remarks by Madeline Albright, Gloria Steinem and others and we both felt like they were trying to lay a guilt trip on the younger generation. The effort in and of itself seemed dated and out of touch.

Times change, and the leaders are out of touch with the challenges of being a young person in the current economy.

[uponit7771]

9. Free college!? My mother and I talked about this today... was like, well .. .hell.. offer people who

... are going to college something free and watch them gravitate.

Make them believe they'll get it and they'll fight for you

Make them believe that someone else is trying to take it away from them and they'll fight the someone else.

Pretty simple

[bunnies]

10. Millennial Women are Gravitating to Bernie Sanders Because theyre not stupid.

Stop fucking denigrating smart young women.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

11. As a middle-aged woman who grew up during the feminist movement, it's tough to see

the first potential female candidate potentially get beaten by a man again. It's hard not to feel like it's a slap in the face. Since younger women didn't have to grow up during that period, maybe it's different for them. That being said, I adore Bernie and have loved his message for a long time. I'm very torn. I also worry he cannot win in the general election also. We cannot afford to lose this election and end up with more right-wing Supreme Court nominees.

This is a very tough election for me and people like Gloria Steinem.