Hillary Clinton: 'I'm not with her': why women are wary of Hillary Clinton

[imagine2015]

Hillary Clinton
'I'm not with her': why women are wary of Hillary Clinton
As a whole, women support Clinton over Trump and Sanders, but 49% of women from across the political spectrum give her an unfavorable rating
by Angelina Chapin
May 23, 2016


Anoa Changa is a feminist who isn’t going to vote for Hillary Clinton. Last July, when the 34-year-old Atlanta-based attorney began volunteering with the grassroots organization Women for Bernie Sanders, she received immediate pushback from other women. Over social media, they accused her and other Sanders volunteers of betraying their gender, and of being fake feminists. Even former professors and friends questioned how she could support the Vermont senator over the secretary of state.

It’s true that, as a whole, women support her more than both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, but that support is not nearly as overwhelming as black voter support was for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Millennial women, for example, prefer Sanders to Clinton and 49% of American women give the secretary of state an unfavorable rating.

“Some women I encounter act as if I’ve betrayed some kind of secret society,” says Changa. “I reject this brand of feminism. I’m not only voting for my gender, I’m voting for other issues.”

Women from across the political spectrum, who often can’t agree on basic policy, are united in their opposition to Hillary.

Many women simply don’t see themselves reflected in Clinton. While most second-wave feminists know her long record of women’s rights advocacy and want to see a female commander-in-chief in their lifetimes, younger feminists are more concerned with a movement that includes women from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

“I’m sure for a certain class of women [Hillary Clinton] is perfect,” says Changa, who has lived in Harlem and Chicago’s South Side and was a single mom throughout college. “But there are a lot of issues that affect low-income women, immigrant women and women of color that her brand of doing things is not going to address.”

Read the full article at:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/23/women-female-voters-us-election-hillary-clinton

[djean111]

1. As a 70 year old woman, I have no intention at all of ignoring her stances on issues, and actual

deeds, and voting for Hillary just because she is a woman. Gender does not even count, for me. Her deeds and policies have hurt, and will hurt women. And children. And men. I don't care how many speeches she has given.

[frazzled]

2. You mean, "why THIS ONE woman is not with her"

Millions of women are, and she has been killing the woman vote nearly everywhere. Here are some countervailing perspectives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/opinion/campaign-stops/what-my-mother-sees-in-hillary.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

http://www.pajiba.com/politics/an-allcaps-explosion-of-feelings-regarding-the-liberal-backlash-against-hillary-clinton.php#.V0Jr9j5ox2A.facebook

[imagine2015]

6. Most younger women have been voting for Sanders, not Clinton.

Are you aware of that fact?

[insta8er]

7. Great that you read the WHOLE article..I guess you conveniently missed this bit of info.

Millennial women, for example, prefer Sanders to Clinton and 49% of American women give the secretary of state an unfavorable rating.

Now..read this line again!!!! Not just Millennials!!!! read it again.... 49% of AMERICAN women give her an unfavorable rating

[Waiting For Everyman]

3. I should be in her constituency, and I'm sure not.

There are a bunch of us boomer women who don't like neocon neoliberals. I don't care what gender they are. In fact, I regard women in that camp as WORSE betrayers of us women than the men neo-neos. It's the "I've got mine, screw you" attitude.

What the HRC women don't get is, I couldn't care less what they don't like about my views, they had better be caring what I don't like.

I don't fall for psychological manipulation and guilt trips. And I don't forget that they dared to try it. Big fail, and permanent.

I think that may be a widespread view among women who aren't on her bandwagon... some longtime Dems like me, and a lot more Indies probably.

[Faux pas]

4. K N R-ed

[Yurovsky]

5. If you are a 1% kind of woman you're all in for HRC...

can't have the peasants derailing your gravy train...