Gloria Steinem was cynically appealing to ageism in dismissing younger women that support Bernie.

[Uncle Joe]

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1. discrimination against persons of a certain age group.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ageism?s=t

She produced no logical rebuttal addressing younger womens' concerns or priorities in regards to the issues that are most important to them and why they support Bernie over Hillary.

Pay inequity and in many cases raising children alone; which keeps more women in poverty than men or at least the lower middle income class, Bernie's proposals most directly addresses these problems.

Whether it be Medicare for all, thus eliminating for profit insurance premiums and sky high deductibles, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour helping in the more immediate now, strengthening/expanding social security and tuition free public universities which in turn paves the way to a higher income or at the very least a more fulfilling life.

Or in a more general way, younger womens' disgust with how the pursuit of money by politicians of both genders have corrupted our democratic process or being fed up with our nation's eternal preoccupation with waging war.

It's not that older women don't have these concerns as well but younger generations in general are more in tune with the mass instantaneous, two way communication and public debate fostered by the Internet whereas older generations of both genders are more likely to get their information from the one way, top down dictates of television controlled by a handful of corporate media conglomerates.

Gloria was appealing to an emotional trigger in middle age and older women using cynical nostalgia, remembering those times of innocence now fractured by their own lives' harsh realities.

On a thread by Luminous Animal

“Women tend to get more radical…because they lose power as they age,” she said. “They’re going to get more activist as they grow older. And when you’re younger, you think, ‘where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie.'”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1157939

This was a hit song when Gloria was approximately twenty six years old.

I don't believe Gloria did this to convince younger women to abandon Bernie for Hillary, and vote against their own best self-interest or concerns but as an emotional based attempt at convincing more middle age and older women that younger women were just being naive.

It's not "where the boys are."

A recent poll even found that young women supported Sanders in greater numbers than young men. A January online survey of young voters from USA Today and Rock the Vote showed that women under 35 supported Sanders by an almost 20-point margin, compared to men's 4-point margin.

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The age gap is stark. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that Sanders bests Clinton among 18- to 44-year-olds, 78 percent to 21 percent. But support for Clinton seems to grow with age: 53 percent of 45- to 64-year-olds chose her, along with 71 percent of people 65 and older.


http://www.npr.org/2016/02/01/465144857/women-and-the-generational-divide-between-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders

I believe that Gloria believes as Bernie and his message gain traction, more middle age and older women will turn to him as well and that's what she is afraid of.

[Wilms]

1. CIA Gloria?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem#CIA_ties

[Uncle Joe]

2. I didn't know about that one. n/t

[Odin2005]

3. The PTB have been demonizing us Millennials for a while.

We are demonized as entitled, spoiled narcissists because we refuse to "accept reality" and be good consumerist corporate drones.

[JudyM]

4. She was also, in fact, disturbingly sexist.

[Uncle Joe]

5. That too.

[FrenchieCat]

6. I think what she said was in bad taste....

and unrequired!