Bernie Sanders doesn’t often betray his age with his comments about the issues facing the United States, but at Thursday night’s MSNBC Democrat Town Hall, the 74-year-old who has for some reason captured the hearts of millennials reminded us just what generation he belongs to when he name-checked Gloria Steinem, adding, “everyone knows she is one of the leading feminists in America.” It’s one of those phrases he wouldn’t have had to add if he didn’t sense that perhaps his younger followers didn’t recognize the 81-year-old as one of today’s leading feminists.
Hillary Clinton has had trouble securing the votes and enthusiasm of young women who consider themselves feminists and can’t reconcile Clinton’s past with their more modern beliefs.
Sanders made a play to depict himself as the true feminist of the dueling candidates by citing the time Steinem declared him an “honorary woman.”
Bernie Sanders talks about the time he was made an 'honorary woman.' #DemTownHall https://t.co/OplaXMbCCQ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 19, 2016
Die-hard Clinton supporters such as NARAL Pro-Choice weren’t about to let that pass for feminism.
NARAL Pro-Choice releases a statement after Bernie Sanders says Gloria Steinem called him an honorary woman. pic.twitter.com/QlcvO1yl3j
— Claudia Koerner (@ClaudiaKoerner) February 19, 2016
@ClaudiaKoerner @BuzzFeedNews – YOU 'don't get it'. HRC is 'status quo', WE THE PEOPLE r done. We don't care about her uterus. #FeelTheBern
— Shortbus Mooner (@ShortbusMooner) February 19, 2016
https://twitter.com/EONealIII/status/700534507523301376
@ClaudiaKoerner @instapundit If I were Bernie, I'd play a loop of Gloria Steinem maligning young women 24/7, but I'm not Bernie, am I?
— Douglas Bass (@douglasbass) February 19, 2016
Bernie: Am I a feminist? Yes. In fact, @GloriaSteinem called me an "Honorary Woman"
Bernie is BEST candidate 4 women#DemTownHall #NVcaucus— ? Women4Bernie Save Main St (@savemain_st) February 19, 2016
A (honorary) uterus does not make you qualified to be president, @BernieSanders #DemTownHall #ImWithHer
— Jasmine (@feistybunnygirl) February 19, 2016
@ClaudiaKoerner Bernie is a lifetime liberal. He's a consistent liberal. He's more of a feminist than Hillary will ever be.
— R (@demfornixon) February 19, 2016
https://twitter.com/foreverz331/status/700537954566074372
@foreverz331 so a man like Bernie can't be more of a feminist than someone like Phyllis Schlafly?
— R (@demfornixon) February 19, 2016
@ClaudiaKoerner @instapundit cut him some slack – he's half-woman (his mother was a woman)
— The Mommy Voice? (@Uuf_dah) February 19, 2016
@ClaudiaKoerner @MTmarilyn2 Is the determination no man can get it? If not, what doesn't Sanders get? What if Elizabeth Warren was his VP?
— Steve Leibowitz ? (@StevenL57) February 19, 2016
@ClaudiaKoerner @jaketapper Such is when your gender and race puts you at the tip top of the food chain. It's implicit.
— iMoore (@imoore8904) February 19, 2016
@ClaudiaKoerner @jaketapper @HillaryClinton has had a far easier life than most women. She does not represent most women.
— LGC (@LGCUnAmvague) February 19, 2016
@ClaudiaKoerner @instapundit Only Hillary has the balls to stand up to men's status quo in this country. Like with Bill.
— Simarilian (@simarilian) February 19, 2016
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