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tabasco

(22,974 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 05:43 PM Feb 2016

Gloria Steinem Apologizes for Implying Women Back Sanders to Meet Men

Source: NBC News

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has apologized for implying that younger women have chosen to support Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary because they want to meet men.

On the Friday edition of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," the host pressed Steinem on the contemporary state of feminism. Steinem disagreed with the notion that younger women had become complacent about the Roe v. Wade decision, which held that a woman's right to have an abortion fell within constitutionally protected privacy rights.

"I find the young women very, very activist and they're way, way more feminist than we [were]. I mean, we were like 12 crazy ladies in the beginning. Now it's the majority," Steinem said. "But I do think that gratitude never radicalized anybody, you know. I did not say, 'Thank you for the vote.' I got mad on the basis of what was happening to me. And I think that that's true of young women too. So they're mad as hell because they're graduating in debt. And they're going to earn a million dollars less over their lifetime to pay it back. You know, they're mad about what's happening to them."

Maher subsequently asked the activist why so many younger women were not supporting Clinton in her race for the presidency. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll that surveyed New Hampshire Democratic primary voters found that 64 percent of women under 45 supported Sanders, a 29-point advantage over Clinton.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/gloria-steinem-apologizes-implying-women-back-sanders-meet-men-n513311

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Gloria Steinem Apologizes for Implying Women Back Sanders to Meet Men (Original Post) tabasco Feb 2016 OP
Instead of her half ass apology Gloria should answer the bloody question she was asked. Bluenorthwest Feb 2016 #1
I agree DonCoquixote Feb 2016 #5
Thanks. elleng Feb 2016 #2
Wow, this is not the Gloria Steinem I remember. Guess she hasn't been that for a while. FailureToCommunicate Feb 2016 #3
was she ever? she's always been a celebrity first uhnope Feb 2016 #4
Unfair lunatica Feb 2016 #23
Young women wanting to meet young men.. jalan48 Feb 2016 #6
a NON-apology truthseeker1 Feb 2016 #7
Her comments about the women going to where the men are was a flip joke. She had already answered. SunSeeker Feb 2016 #8
yes this is much ado about nothing ... and plays into the very real "bros" issue cloudythescribbler Feb 2016 #11
What very real "bros" issue? mhatrw Feb 2016 #12
Good to know someone else watching saw that. CC Feb 2016 #18
This is such a non issue. leftyladyfrommo Feb 2016 #19
I think it's what we just used to call a 'gaffe'. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #9
What a lovely non-apology. jeff47 Feb 2016 #10
Clintonites Blind billhicks76 Feb 2016 #13
She should apologize for positioning Hillary as the candidate of bitter old women. n/t Plappergeist Feb 2016 #14
Hey, watch that!! Boomer Feb 2016 #15
Bitter old woman Bernie voter here also... Dont call me Shirley Feb 2016 #24
Hey! Who here knows any Yiddish? Plappergeist Feb 2016 #26
Not me, fill me in Dont call me Shirley Feb 2016 #27
If any liberal women are interested IronLionZion Feb 2016 #16
Wow, How embarassing. And I'm a feminist and have to take that. No, no I don't. trillion Feb 2016 #17
Tempest In A Teapot ProfessorGAC Feb 2016 #20
She's 81. I can forgive this. She's a treasured icon who doesn't deserve a pile on Arazi Feb 2016 #21
Cat out of bag - damage done SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #22
A lot of women, especially in the south awoke_in_2003 Feb 2016 #25
It was pretty much Kall Feb 2016 #28
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
1. Instead of her half ass apology Gloria should answer the bloody question she was asked.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 05:46 PM
Feb 2016

A question evaded in a questionable manner. So she should respond to the inquiry.

Then she should apologize to the transgender community for years of intolerant speech.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
5. I agree
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:01 PM
Feb 2016

by denying the fact that many young women do not support Hillary because THEY DO NOT LIKE HER STATED POLICIES and PAST ACTIONS, Gloria gets to tap-dance.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
23. Unfair
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 04:48 PM
Feb 2016

She may have said something she wasn't really thinking about clearly and is wrong but she was never just about her celebrity.

She was raised by a mother who was mentally ill and they were so poor that at one point, as a small child, when she was asleep she was bitten by rats so badly that she almost bled out and had to be taken to the emergency room. Her father abandoned them.

I don't know if her mother is still alive but Gloria took care of her all her life. She also lost her husband to cancer after only a few years of marriage. She may look like she grew up well off, and she may sound like it because she's educated, but condemning her and assuming you know anything about her is just plain wrong.

truthseeker1

(1,686 posts)
7. a NON-apology
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:14 PM
Feb 2016

She claims to have "misspoken" and accuses people of "misinterpreting" her. BS!

"In a case of talk-show Interruptus, I misspoke on the Bill Maher show recently, and apologize for what's been misinterpreted as implying young women aren't serious in their politics. What I had just said on the same show was the opposite: young women are active, mad as hell about what's happening to them, graduating in debt, but averaging a million dollars less over their lifetimes to pay it back. Whether they gravitate to Bernie or Hillary, young women are activist and feminist in greater numbers than ever before."

What is "talk-show interruptus?"

SunSeeker

(51,571 posts)
8. Her comments about the women going to where the men are was a flip joke. She had already answered.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:19 PM
Feb 2016

She had already answered the question, noting they are driven by high student debt, among other things.

But hey, don't let me get in the way of the outrage du jour.

CC

(8,039 posts)
18. Good to know someone else watching saw that.
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:18 AM
Feb 2016

She also said young men went where the women were. but god forbid we get that she was joking. RME

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)
19. This is such a non issue.
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 02:10 AM
Feb 2016

The woman has spent the last 50 years of her life fighting for women and everybody jumps on her for one sentence that was just a flip joke.

Lighten up. Gees.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
9. I think it's what we just used to call a 'gaffe'.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:21 PM
Feb 2016

Ie, blurting out what you really think, instead of the spin you meant to put out.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
13. Clintonites Blind
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 08:32 PM
Feb 2016

They are hopeless if they view this as just a gaffe or that an apology. Hopeless like Bush supporters in a bubble.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
27. Not me, fill me in
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 07:17 PM
Feb 2016

On edit:

Farbissen

(far-BISS-en) adj. Bitter; sullen; crippled by bitterness. A farbissener (m) or farbissenah (f) is a grump or crabby person; a bitter person or curmudgeon.

 

trillion

(1,859 posts)
17. Wow, How embarassing. And I'm a feminist and have to take that. No, no I don't.
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 12:15 AM
Feb 2016

I'll post this here, it's Hillary playing the gender card again, in a 5 min clip of the debate with Bernie 3 nights ago and having her entire corrupt presidential run handed to her on a plate. Would anyone in that audience vote for her after Bernies reply? I doubt it.

Watch for 5 mins because after she shows no substane he hands it to her. He's done by min 17:30(5 mins after it starts) Most of it is Hillary:

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/5/clinton_accuses_sanders_of_artful_smear

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
20. Tempest In A Teapot
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:29 PM
Feb 2016

I saw her on the show. She was not demeaning anybody. This is just silly. I thought she made her point abundantly clear.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
21. She's 81. I can forgive this. She's a treasured icon who doesn't deserve a pile on
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 02:02 PM
Feb 2016

her body of work grants her a lot of leeway from me

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
25. A lot of women, especially in the south
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 07:10 PM
Feb 2016

have no idea the battles women like Ms. Steinem fought on their behalf. They have bought too deep into Christianity and right wing talking points. I remember when I took a US government course. After discussing Roe v Wade we were asked who supported the decision. There was me, another 40 something male, and the rest were recent high school graduates. Half the class was female. Only me and the other "old" dude raised our hands.

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