Hillary Clinton Defends Albright’s ‘Special Place In Hell’ Remark

It’s a awful, ridiculous idea – that women could be expected to vote as instructed – but, if you squint, you can kind of see how that particular train of thought rolled into stupid station. Women are so common in today’s executive offices that the first woman in the Oval Office will not represent jarring social change so much as a lagging indicator of what is well underway across the land. We recognize the sexist tropes launched against Clinton and repeated uncritically in the media. “I think that she’s been saying that for as long as I’ve known her”.

Hillary said, in response to a question on why she wasn’t getting higher support from women voters, “Well, first, Judy, I have spent my entire adult life working toward making sure that women are empowered to make their own choices, even if that choice is not to vote for me”.

The answer, according to feminist iconoclast Camille Paglia, lies in “a very incestuous” bond that Paglia alleges existed between mainstream feminism and the mainstream media and united them behind the Clintons.

“We’ll take our progress wherever we can find it”, she added.

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem drew criticism last week for comments she made about women supporting Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, but video found by The Daily Caller shows Steinem campaigning for Sanders in 1996 and calling the then-congressman “an honorary woman”. I agree that there is a special place in hell for women who don’t help women, but I think there are many different ways to help women. “And when you’re younger, you think: ‘Where are the boys?”

Clinton’s campaign did not return calls for comment about the Blair papers.

“Your strong supporter, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women”, the PBS debate moderator and Clinton Foundation donor Judy Woodruff asked.

Steinem has since issued an apology.

Her remarks, intended as an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, weren’t well received by Sanders supporters, or by me, and I’m not a Sanders supporter. It does not resonate. Not to mention the fact that Bernie has, in my opinion, some of the best racial justice policies that will work to transform this country into a nation that affirms the value of its women of color-a group that is often pushed to the fringes of the feminist movement.

During her campaign, Clinton has sharpened the gender politics she embraced from its beginning, presenting herself as a mother and grandmother and an advocate for women’s rights, as well as the woman who can open a new door for every little girl. The health campaigns and rape centers she helped set up still benefit women in the Middle East and Africa.

The same can be said of the women who have served as secretary of state. Or explain further why voting for Clinton is something that COULD drive the feminist movement forward and why SHE endorses Clinton. There are some similarities to 2008, when polling showed that President Barack Obama did better than Clinton with younger women.

In Iowa on February 1, Clinton did manage to pull off a narrow, if contested, overall victory and won Iowa women by a more comfortable 11-point margin.

Now, coupled with Gloria Steinem’s comment about how some young women are flocking to Bernie Sanders because that’s where the boys are, a lot of people didn’t like the suggestion that women should be supporting Clinton and not Sanders. On the flip side, young voters with no children, or young voters with only sons, are more likely to vote Sanders.

Regardless of the candidate she supports, I would have hoped that Steinem would acknowledge the power she has to influence young feminists and use that power to encourage women to do the necessary research to come to their own informed decision. I think she was more of a genuine individual.