Gloria Steinem apologizes for ‘Bernie shaming’ on Bill Maher show

Gloria Steinem at the 2016 MAKERS Conference in California.

Interestingly, Steinem did not apologize for her phallo-centric and hetero-sexist assumption that all of Bernie’s women supports are attracted to men and none have the hots for other women.

She argues that Bernie’s female supporters are boy insane and appears to be doing so as a means of demeaning these women.

Hillary Clinton’s older feminist supporters have a message for young women who are not backing her candidacy: Shame on you. “Steinem replied that young women were thinking “‘Where are the boys?’ The boys are with Bernie”. Nevertheless, on Saturday, hours after Steinem’s remark, Albright’s words angered some, who found them condescending, and brought questions of gender and politics into high relief on the trail. In Iowa, Clinton won only 14 percent of voters between the ages of 17 and 29.

The backlash to Steinem’s comments was swift, so she took to Facebook with an apology and clarification. But to me, what feels decisively un-feminist is this notion that younger women are incapable of making informed, smart decisions about when it comes to who they’re going to vote for in this election.

“I just bought it out front, I couldn’t wait to put it on”, Roberts said of her new “Feel the Bern” shirt. This is not to deny that Steinem contributed a great deal to the feminist movement.

Steinem also backed Clinton in 2008, when she was defeated in the Democratic primary by a man named Barack Obama. Young women are much more likely to support Sanders than older women.

At a Clinton rally in New Hampshire on February 6, Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-the first female to have held that position-said, “There’s a special place in hell for women that don’t help each other“.

Clinton told Tapper she didn’t want to “single anybody out”. “How well do you know me?” Then she started saying it all the time, then it was on a Starbucks cup, then Taylor Swift started saying it.