{"id":181935,"date":"2016-02-06T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/06\/gloria-steinem-how-about-a-nice-glass-of-shut-the-f-up\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T02:21:00","slug":"gloria-steinem-how-about-a-nice-glass-of-shut-the-f-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/06\/gloria-steinem-how-about-a-nice-glass-of-shut-the-f-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Steinem, How about a Nice Glass of Shut the F%$# Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MjcwEk4.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MjcwEk4.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has just suggested that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/dem-primaries\/268498-gloria-steinem-young-women-support-sanders-to-attract-men\">young women are supporting Bernie Sanders because they are looking to impress boys<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Feminist activist Gloria Steinem on Friday suggested that young women support Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders over rival Hillary Clinton because they want to meet boys. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">On HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d Maher asked Steinem why Clinton, who has campaigned on the historic nature of her candidacy, was losing the young female vote.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t mean to over-generalize \u2026 but men tend to get more conservative because they gain power as they age, and women get more radical because they lose power as they age,\u201d Steinem responded.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cSo it\u2019s kind of not fair to measure most women by the standard of most men, because they\u2019re going to get more activist as they get older,\u201d she added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAnd when you\u2019re young, you\u2019re thinking, \u2018Where are the boys?\u2019 The boys are with Bernie.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Maher joked that if he had chalked up Bernie\u2019s support among young women to their desire to meet boys, Steinem would have slapped him.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>After a lifetime of supporting equality, you blithely dismiss the attitudes of women as some sort of attempt at catching the right man?<\/p>\n<p>She is saying that young women have no agency of their all.<\/p>\n<p>I understand how some people are excited about the possibility of Hillary Clinton being the first woman President, but this is nuts.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger picture is that identity politics is morally bankrupt, but I&#8217;m not a big picture kind of guy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just call lame beyond belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has just suggested that young women are supporting Bernie Sanders because they are looking to impress boys: Feminist activist Gloria Steinem on Friday suggested that young women support Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders over rival Hillary Clinton because they want to meet boys. On HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher,\u201d Maher &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,1145,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-sexism","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}