dagblog - Comments for "Wherefore the Gender Gap"

Hi Hal,

tmccarthy0 — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 22:51:14 +0000

Hi Hal,

You like Bernie, that is fine. One thing we women hate is when men presumptuously tell us they know better about our issues. Hillary Clinton will always be a better advocate for women, because she is a woman and she lives it like we do. I do see a tinge of anti-women in your blog, you seem to believe Bernie is better on women's issues and then you give some arbitrary reason. It is telling that you want us to realize you believe Sanders has a better grasp of women's issues, and that you have tried to tarnish Clinton in a way, to make her seem weak on our issues. But we women know much better than that, we know Hillary Clinton has been speaking forcefully about women and children's issues since the 1970's. In 1995 she gave a powerful speech in China about women's rights as human rights and she took the Chinese government to task right there. Why is it you want to pick a fight with women? You sound like a Republican man telling us we should just pay attention to what you say, because you know better than we do. Dude, Bernie Sanders has nothing on Hillary Clinton when it comes to our issues. She has defended Planned Parenthood and just because you don't think what she said was important, we women know better. You are really making our case for us, your constant search to degrade Clinton's run is telling women overall that most men fear a woman in charge, even Democrats. You like Bernie, great, but your constant attacks on Mrs. Clinton will solidify the our vote for her. We see men of all shapes and sizes and their utter fear of her and we say to ourselves, hell yeah, we are voting for her, it is time to crush that glass ceiling. So thanks for making sure women know what we need to do.

I agree with Missy on this.

trkingmomoe — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:16:42 +0000

In reply to The very real threat, once

I agree with Missy on this. This does demeans the fight by using it to get at Clinton. Right now Clinton has the majority of the female vote and for good reason. She is very qualified to be president. I support Bernie because I want his push back of the oligarchy to remain in the campaign as long as possible. There is plenty of frustration in the population with the current control of the government by the rich that started with OWS and has not gone away. This needs to be expressed so the politicians see how big it is and that it is growing. They are seeing it in the huge crowds that he is drawing at his rallies. Her style of campaigning is not the locker room pep talk that is Bernie's style. He is out there teaching the population that you can change things if you get involved.

He will be able to take that national support back to congress if he doesn't win the primary and turn it into a powerful coalition with Senators like Warren and Brown. There has been a vacuum left after Ted Kennedy died in the power structure of the Senate. Having a strong left leadership in congress is very important and just as important as a Democrat in the Whitehouse. He will use his grass roots supporter list to keep a fire lit under the congress to pass bills in favor of the 99%.

I agree about the gender

rmrd0000 — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:34:07 +0000

In reply to For nearly three years, House

I agree about the gender identity politics. Men have to start taking viable female candidates more seriously. There was a large male preference for male only candidates for President and Vice President back when Geraldine Ferraro ran with Walter Mondale. We have to work to combat anti-female bias among male voters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/us/politics/27geraldine-ferraro.html

Clinton is better on

HSG — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:47:00 +0000

In reply to The very real threat, once

Clinton is better on reproductive rights than she is in many other areas. But criticizing her for taking a nuanced position when she should have issued a full-throated defense of Planned Parenthood doesn't demean the fight for women's control over their bodies and tissue research in any way. It's an exploration into who would be the best President.

For nearly three years, House

HSG — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:42:33 +0000

In reply to Well, just to be the Bernie's

For nearly three years, House Republicans have engaged in absurd partisan investigations desperate to find evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton that led to or in the aftermath of Benghazi. They've turned up nothing and wasted time, energy, and millions of dollars in the process. Now they're latching onto obviously phony purely partisan allegations against the wholly estimable Planned Parenthood based on three year old videos.

But Clinton's reacts by saying if we're going to have hearings about funding Planned Parenthood, we need to look at other groups too. How can this be okay? I get she's better than the Republicans on abortion/healthcare by a mile. But she's not better than Bernie Sanders on this issue. In fact, she's worse. So how come her support among Democratic women is 22% higher than it is among Democratic men? Can there be any other explanation besides gender identity politics? Is that a good enough reason to support her?

People see what they want to

ocean-kat — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:28:51 +0000

In reply to Well, just to be the Bernie's

People see what they want to see. From the beginning Hillary has defended Planned Parenthood.

The very real threat, once

barefooted — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 06:09:06 +0000

In reply to Wherefore the Gender Gap

The very real threat, once again, to Planned Parenthood and the need to fight against that threat and defend the reality and legitimacy of tissue research is of utmost importance. Trying to use it as a political jab against Clinton/for Sanders demeans that fight, and frankly creates a false division among the supporters of both.

Well, just to be the Bernie's

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 05:08:57 +0000

In reply to You're just not paying

Well, just to be the Bernie's advocate, which is pretty comfortable work about now, I think the sequence of events says a lot. The notion that Sanders reacted according to his expressed values while Clinton ducked and calculated until the right political strategy was obvious is one way to look at it. Not that that settles anything about anything.

You're just not paying

ocean-kat — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 02:40:47 +0000

In reply to Wherefore the Gender Gap

You're just not paying attention. Hillary has given a robust defense of Planned Parenthood at least as much if not more than Sanders.