This kind of comment is why people who resent coastal “elites” actually have a case. Don’t forget that Trump only got 52% of the vote here... which means that about half of Texas voters wanted someone else. Don’t forget that it was a Texan who signed into law Medicaid, Medicare, the VRA, and the CRA. Don’t forget…

You seem determined to misread everything... so yeah I guess the conversation is over.

Steinem and I were talking about women in general being united... not just feminists. So if you were only talking about self-identified feminists then you were missing the conversation.

and how maybe that, more than anything else, is why “solidarity” is such an elusive beast.

It’s funny* how we never let women forget a single mistake. They have to be absolutely perfect to even try making a difference or we never let them forget it. It’s a wonder any women even try to have opinions in the public eye.

She put it incredibly poorly, but there was a good point somewhere in there about why there isn’t more solidarity among women and why we so often have to evolve into our feminism.

You should have decided beforehand whether this was gonna be a joke list or a list to actually honor and inspire.

Yup! This a hundred times.

Of course it’s both. What WhimsicalEthnographies is talking about is *an effect of sexism*. However stopping at that shallow level and not calling it out for what it is (misogyny) is bullshit.

Number one is pretty much classic “double standards”. We extend trust much more easily to men than to women. This is textbook sexism.

...and none of that was motivated by sexism? Please.

Yet true.

For whatever reason, there’s been a longstanding difficulty in her relationship with the press that meant her flaws were wildly amplified

As the paper points out, “many of the programs were begun or were championed by Hillary Clinton” while she was Secretary of State.

Sometimes the “coastal elites” argument has a lot of truth to it.

If you’re gonna post graphs at least post accurate ones. I guess you don’t care about that either huh?

Your intro makes no mention of the way media outlets (including Gawker) tirelessly went after Hillary for anything they could think of (no matter how thin). The alt-right weren’t the only ones conducting a witch hunt against Hillary. Hell, the New York Times used to employ Steve Bannon for his anti-Clinton research.

I don’t have an opinion on Ellison but seriously stop citing an endorsement from Bernie Sanders as a *positive*.

Obama’s ‘12 vote total was only (maybe) half a million more than Clinton’s ‘16 total. You’re off by an order of magnitude.

Good. Losing Nancy Pelosi would have made things even more depressing from a women-in-politics perspective.