2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Not With Her, Still a Feminist [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)You cite progressives who "say they are feminists yet work to keep the status quo--like keeping more white privileged men in the white house."
The sad reality here is that so many careerist feminists think that the only dimension of "the status quo" is physical identity--change that, and presto! (And then they conveniently ignore Sanders' historic "firsts," like being the first Jewish POTUS candidate to have this much popular support.) Both Clintons' welfare reduction, incarceration policies that disproportionate harmed minorities, wage and job demolishing trade policies, and late-night financial-deregulation have harmed hundreds of thousands of women, particularly women of color, and that's just in this country.
What good does it do a battered women with children to know that "the first viable woman in our nation's history" is the president when she can't afford to get out because the safety net's been pulled out from under her, she's too exhausted from working minimum wage jobs to figure out any other solution, the police have gotten more powerful with "drug war" money and if she's partnered with an African American male he'll face far more than normal justice if she calls the police on him.
The real privilege is people thinking a biological female as POTUS is enough to address the deeper patriarchal realities we all face. A man can be more of an actual feminist than a woman, and one of those men is Bernie Sanders.