Bannon: Progressive women "a bunch of dykes that came from Seven Sister schools"

[Tanuki]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-campaign-ceo-once-blasted-bunch-of-dykes-from-the-seve?utm_term=.vp35VKBN6#.cnAzR5Zeo

"Donald Trump’s campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said during a 2011 radio interview that progressives vilify prominent women in the conservative movement because they are not “a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools.”

Citing women like Ann Coulter, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin, Bannon said conservative women threaten the progressive narrative.

“And so these women cut to the heart of the progressive narrative,” he said on Political Vindication Radio while promoting his movie, Fire From the Heartland: the Awakening of the Conservative Woman.

“That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement. That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women,” he said."....

[catbyte]

1. What a creep.

[CTyankee]

2. As the mother of a daughter who graduated from Mt Holyoke, I am outraged by this guy...

And it is stupid. Surely the guy knows that there are only maybe 4 of the original 7 that are all still all female and some allow a few males to take certain courses. This shows his ignorance. If he is going after Hillary for being a Wellesley graduate, he really is desperate.

Besides, how many people even KNOW what a 7 sister school is or was? I doubt if Trump's base has any idea.

[Tanuki]

3. Ironically, Trump has a sister who is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry


"Barry was born in 1937 in New York City, New York, to real-estate developer Fred Trump and Mary MacLeod Trump. She is the older sister of businessman and 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.[1][2]

Barry received her B.A. in political science/government from Mount Holyoke College in 1958,[3] an M.A. from Columbia University in 1962, and her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 1974.[4] Before becoming a judge, she held other public service positions, and was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.[4]"...

[CTyankee]

4. That's rich! What a hypocrite!

[pnwmom]

6. Up till the 70's, women were barred from the Ivy league.

Hillary was among the first class of women accepted to the Yale Law school. She couldn't have been admitted as an undergraduate because they weren't accepting any women then.

The all-women colleges that were considered peers of the Ivy league, including Wellesley, were called the Seven Sisters.

And the women weren't any more likely to be lesbians than Ivy league students were to be gay. (In other words, just the usual proportion that would be at any college -- though most LGBT in that era were in the closet.)