– Gloria Steinem
Great discussion on NPR this morning (you can replay this at npr.org)
with Gloria Steinem, around her excellent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times earlier this week:
No matter how you feel about Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem remains as brilliant and articulate as ever.
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House.
Gloria really hit the nail on the head on this one. I thought these were brilliant insights:
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What worries me is that she is accused of “playing the gender card” when citing the old boys’ club, while he is seen as unifying by citing civil rights confrontations.
What worries me is that male Iowa voters were seen as gender-free when supporting their own, while female voters were seen as biased if they did and disloyal if they didn’t."
I totally agree, Rox. I also really liked where she said, "I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together."
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