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feminist rift
by sarah deats
I'm glad to see Dahlia Lithwick's article, and wish there were more of this kind of balanced reporting of this issue. I would like to suggest, though, that this isn't just a generational split. I'm a second wave feminist who has been appalled at the attempt to blame Hillary Clinton's strategic blunders on sexism. In the later part of the campaign, Obama appeared to me to be acting out of more feminist principles than she was. I supported him from the beginning because it appeared to me that he had a better fundamental understanding of the problems and potential solutions that are at the root of the dangerous situation we find ourselves in. Feminist values are certainly necessary to find our way out of this mess, but the idea that only women can have feminist values seems decidedly unfeminist to me.
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