"Sexism has nothing to do with it"

[DebbieCDC]

Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders

Despite emergency efforts by Gloria Steinem, the crafty dowager empress of feminism, to push a faltering Hillary over the finish line, Sanders overwhelmingly won women’s votes in every category except senior citizens. Last week, when she told TV host Bill Maher that young women supporting the Sanders campaign are just in it to meet boys, Steinem managed not only to insult the intelligence and idealism of the young but to vaporize every lesbian Sanders fan into a spectral non-person.

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When and how did Hillary allegedly become a feminist icon, as so many young women evidently think? Her public prominence has always been based not on any accomplishment of her own but on her marriage to a charismatic politician, now in his dotage. Her speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 listed the limitations and atrocities suffered by Third World women and children, but her call to “move beyond rhetoric” has lacked a discernible follow-through. Moreover, in a central passage of that speech, every sentence about Hillary’s encounters with needy women began with “I”, unsettlingly prefiguring her over-use of “I” in her current campaign, in contrast to Bernie Sanders’ ego-transcending focus on sparking a populist movement of political reform.

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/11/sexism_has_nothing_to_do_with_it_camille_paglia_on_hillary_clinton_gloria_steinem_and_why_new_hampshire_women_broke_for_bernie_sanders/

Great read!

[guillaumeb]

1. Do you think that Ms. Steinem wishes she could take back that comment?

recommended.

[jonno99]

4. You mean "the crafty dowager empress of feminism"? Love or hate Paglia, but she

knows how to word-craft like few others...

[hifiguy]

5. Like Hunter Thompson and Charlie Pierce

she has a true gift for the razor-edged, maximally pungent phrase.

[guillaumeb]

6. Agreed. I would not dare say that. eom

[jonno99]

2. Ouch - this one will leave a mark:

"Never mind that the woman elevated to Christ Redeemer status by Steinem and Albright has a stained and tattered rap sheet five miles long. What genuine principles does Hillary have left, after a public career so light on concrete achievement and so heavy with lies and greed? Yes, she’s been handed job after job, but primarily due to her very unfeminist association with a man. As a senator, she initiated nothing of substance, and as Secretary of State, she stumbled into one disastrous fiasco after another, escalating the destabilization of North Africa and the Mideast."

Again, ouch. And don't hold back Camille - tell us what you really think!

[hifiguy]

3. Professor Paglia ain't known

for pulling her punches.

[AtomicKitten]

8. [phone]

[MisterP]

7. even Paglia can see it. PAGLIA!

[ismnotwasm]

9. Ew

Paglia? Sweet Lord save me, the feminist who hates feminists, the libertarian darling, getting credibility now?