OK, Apples and Oranges.
APPLES (Steinem/Clinton/Sanders)
"Despite the fact that the United States is a more gender-egalitarian place than ever before, 'guy stuff' remains much more socially vaunted than 'girl stuff.' There are hundreds of examples, large and small: It's trendy to name your daughter a traditionally masculine name but you don't find a lot of boys given girls' names..."
"That isn't to say that plenty of women don't genuinely like whiskey and football and hotdogs and video games. It isn't to say that the women who say they like those things are faking it to impress boys. It is to say that there is a whole assortment of social benefits that comes along with liking guy things, as long as you maintain appropriately feminine levels of deference and physical attractiveness."
"As political writer Rebecca Traister has pointed out, powerful women can be cool, but women get markedly less cool when they're competing for power against a man."
"Similarly, this isn't to say that plenty of young women don't like Bernie Sanders for his policy positions, his revolutionary message, and his far-left politics. They do. Young women aren't dumb, and they aren't pledging allegiance to Sanders just to get the boys. But especially for young women, there are social benefits to supporting Sanders — the Guy Thing, the cool thing — that don't come with supporting Clinton."
"College-age women, even those who vacillate between Clinton and Sanders, agree that Sanders is the cool candidate to support on campus — and that it's particularly uncool to take into account the fact that Clinton is a woman, even though electing a woman to the White House for the first time in 200 years would be, by any measure, a pretty significant (some might even say progressive or revolutionary) achievement."
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a53372/gloria-steinem-controversial-comments/
ORANGES ("Girl Boss" et. al. )
"Do you consider yourself a feminist?
Yeah.
I don't really like to use that word, though. It feels very heavy. It
doesn't feel positive for some reason, and I'm not sure why. I think
it's a fine word, but I think the most feminist thing to do is just to
show up and be a Girl Boss. Maybe Girl Boss is a new word for feminism."
http://jezebel.com/everything-really-hit-rock-bottom-how-nasty-gals-cultu-1711454805
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"Netflix, apparently, thinks it’s the stuff of a comedy series."
http://jezebel.com/netflix-is-turning-sophia-amorusos-girlboss-into-a-ser-1757451066
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