Why Are Millennial Women Gravitating to Bernie Sanders?

New Republic ^ | February 9, 2016 | By Elizabeth Bruenig

[drewh]

There are already several theories circulating to explain the gap between Sanders and Clinton when it comes to young women.

Feminist luminary Gloria Steinem said just last Friday on Bill Maher’s show (then somewhat un-said Sunday) that young women are just going where “the boys” are.

Author Jill Fillipovic followed up with a riff on Steinem’s thinking in Cosmopolitan, arguing that, “In this primary, Sanders is the guy stuff. Clinton is the girl stuff.”

She argued that young women often feel pressured to make a show of liking cool guy stuff instead of lame girl stuff.

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz mused in a January New York Times interview that young women not rallying behind Clinton are merely complacent, while Joan Walsh noted in The Nation that focusing on Sanders taking the lion’s share of youth votes effectively erases those young women who do support Clinton. Speaking at a New Hampshire rally Monday night, actress and model Emily Ratajkowski (who is 24 years old) put it like this:

“I want a female president so that I can say to my daughter one day, you too can become president of the United States. I believe in that symbolic importance. But I have seen symbolism in election, symbolism that fails the people that so desperately need the action to make change. I want my first female president to be more than a symbol, I want her to have politics that can revolutionize.”

[ctdonath2]

A strange screed indeed, sends written by a stoned student whose sociopolitical philosophies screwed up his screwing.

[driftless2]

Because they have SFB.

Beat me to it.

[driftless2]

Apparently, she thinks THIS is the face of conservatism.

Hey, I still have all my hair. Pretty gray now, but all mine.

[Read Write Repeat]

I’m guessing she’s #feelingthebern.

[Biggirl]

.....Yet in the end, a Trump or a Cruz will be sailing into the White House.

[Biggirl]

....And it will be Bob who will decide the election outcome.

[kearnyirish2]

I think a lot of young women are looking at “life as a man” (being overwork and underpaid, with no family but a dog instead) and rejecting it. Any 20+ year old woman who knows middle-aged women sees little to get excited about; many are tired, childless and bitter.

[gogeo]

Two words: free stuff...and they don’t even have to sleep with the geezer.

[Sequoyah101]

Gotta be fast

[dp0622]

Biggirl, I hope you didn’t take offense to my statement.

i left out the part of all the MORON under 40 men who will be voting for Sanders, because they were brought up effeminate and brainwashed by the schools and weren’t put against the wall by their fathers.

there, i corrected it :)

[Elsie]

....And it will be Bob who will decide the election outcome.

And he don't care much for primaries.

Wait 'til the REAL dance starts and he'll shake his booty to the music.

[Slyfox]

Yes, I have a MacBook Air.

[Elsie]

At church (a small one); we used to run our video stuff on a Windows machine.

A new Worship Team Leader fresh from college (where they used Apple based software) convinced the powers that be to get an Apple because it could do some WOW! stuff.

Now I’m just a trained monkey that presses this button or that to get stuff on the screen. I really have no concept of what’s going on behind the curtain.

I’ve yet to see the WOW!