Hillary : Older people and Younger people.

[AGirl]

First of all, I am not writing this post to advocate for the support of Hillary Clinton in any way.

After listenning to talking to many young American men and women, I realize part of the reason why so many young women and men are voting against Hillary.

Three words: Feminism is dead.

Younger people, like myself, are at the height of our sexuality. Many of us are not experienced with the opposite sex, and many of us are not very experienced in a mature sexual relationship or have the responsibility to raise a family.

For heterosexuals, the opposite sex can be a bit of a mystery, the porn industry has made billion of dollars upon using the male domination of women as a way to induce ejaculation from male viewers. Women are at the height of their sexual attractiveness, we tend to focus more on our appearance to get our own way at one point or another without really knowing the implication and long term consequence of how sexism can sustain barriers for both women, gays and transgender people.

Feminism has been dead and ridiculed since the 80s, the younger generation does not really have a great grasp of the nuances of feminism. For some, women are still the "unknown" sex.

I am sure this doesn’t apply to most of the people on DU. But I believe that part of the reason older men and older women are not as opposed to Hillary is simply because the older folks live a little longer with the opposite sex, realize that our gender differences are not that big and there’s more to a relationship and more to human relation than sexual differences and sexual attraction.

It also brings up the interesting point that younger people are generally more supportive of same sex marriages, I do not know why. Perhaps the glbt movement is not as dead as feminism, but is still considered a counterculture thing that young people can jump on and the legal discrimination against glbt people is more apparent than the subtle patriarchy that still rules over us today.


PS: The large support Hillary receives from GLBT Americans seems to support my theory. (The Opposite Sex Attraction is not there for the gay population)


- From the mind of a 24 year transsexual female.

[saltpoint]

1. Senator Clinton's support remains strong in several groups of voters

and she is positioned to be a winner tomorrow in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island.

But the polling has tightened in the last couple weeks and Obama is within striking distance in at least half the 4 states.

It will be an interesting night in U.S. politics.

[cali]

2. Actually, she's positioned to be a loser tomorrow in TX

due to the vagaries of the TX system. If you vote in parts of Dallas, Houston and Austin, your vote is worth approximately 2X more than a vote in South Texas. Obama is now ahead in the majority of TX polls- though it's within the MOE. And the caucus part of the contest favors him.

In OH, he's within a few points and has a more established ground game. I believe she'll pull it out in OH, but I'm predicting an upset in RI. Here in Vermont he'll beat her by 30 pts or so and due to the strange delegate distribution process, he'll take 10 or 11 of the pledged delegates. He already has 3 of the 7 SDs and he'll almost certainly get 2 of the 3 remaining. This is per Eric Davis of Middlebury College, VT's resident political guru.

Barring a political miracle, Obama will come out of Tuesday with 20+ more delegates than Clinton.

[AGirl]

3. I swear I thought you said she is positioned to win due to the vaginas in Texas..

[anonymous171]

4. Second wave is probably dead.

But feminism as a whole is not.