Hillary Clinton Is Finally Ready To Run As a Feminist

[OKNancy]

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-25/to-make-history-hillary-clinton-will-embrace-her-gender-in-2016

-- I would have loved to post this in GD or Politics, but I just don't feel like being a nursemaid to my positive thread.
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Eight years ago, she rarely focused on women's issues, and lost. Now the women who would help Clinton break barriers as the first to win a major party's nomination are embracing her gender like never before

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Since Hillary Clinton last ran for president eight years ago, something unexpected has happened in America: Feminism became chic.

Celebrities like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift embrace the label as part of their brand. Beauty companies hawk their products with messages of female empowerment. And rising female politicians have made fighting sexual assault a key part of their campaigns.

Now, the Clinton brand is getting in on the trend. As aides plot her future presidential bid, the women who would help Clinton break barriers as the first to win a major party's nomination are embracing her gender like never before. Clinton has stacked her public schedule with events focused on women's issues, has wrapped her State Department legacy in what she did for women and girls across the globe, and sprinkles her public remarks with commentary about being a grandmother and jokes about her love of “charismatic, attractive” men. Family-friendly policies that appeal to working women voters, like equal pay, family leave, and more affordable child care, have become central themes of her speeches—a notable shift from eight years ago, when Clinton rarely focused on the topics.

“I’m certainly trying to learn from what I did right and what I didn’t thinking through doing this again,” Clinton said on Tuesday, when asked whether those issues should have been a bigger part of her previous campaign. “Child care, these family issues, are now bubbling to the top of list in people’s minds.”

[William769]

1. I have always said, let Hillary be Hillary.

[hrmjustin]

2. Great post and I agree with you on gd.

[In_The_Wind]

3. I have always said: Hillery is awesome!

[misterhighwasted]

4. Our dear Hillary was always a feminist.

She well knows the story of that glass ceiling & how hard the fight to break through.
I remember how quickly the GOP silenced her desire for Health Care issues, as first Lady. Her ideas were spot on then & her vision of the world today & endless work concerning women's issues has always been a constant with Hillary Clinton.
She is a remarkable woman & her feminist causes are more needed , now, as we have the strong push from the right to narrow the roles & value of the female race.

[Thinkingabout]

5. Women's issues have been swept under the table too many years.

I would say when she establishes a committee to discuss women's issues it will not be filled with men.

[MoonRiver]

6. Not that men won't try to get in on it.

They just love telling us all about our bodies and how we should be living our lives.

[Thinkingabout]

7. Yes, especially republicans some who do not know much about the human body.

[MoonRiver]

8. Yes, I should have qualified that with Republican.

I don't know any Democratic men who think that way. I'm sure there are some, I've just never encountered any.