You\’re not going to believe this.
In an effort to attract women – and by women, I mean young, unmarried and/or Black women, because married White women mostly vote Republican – the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has called upon….
…wait. Tell you what. First let me show you her pitch, then I\’ll tell you who it is:
The outcome of this election will be determined by one factor. Women.
And that scares the Republicans half to death … but not enough to make them actually change their anti-women policies. They still refuse to pass Equal Pay laws. And they\’re still perfectly comfortable denying women their basic human right to make decisions about their own bodies.
Instead they\’re relying on tired, sexist tropes to appeal to us. Women will only vote if voting is like dating, getting married, or breaking up. At least that\’s what Republicans seem to think.
This election is our chance to show them that their relentless sexism will not stand — in fact, it will cost them their seats in Congress.
That\’s why I\’m emailing you today. I need you to step up right now and make sure that Republicans who rely on sexism will lose on November 4th.
Are you in?
Sorry for boring you with what might just possibly be the single most overused mantra in political history: the “war on women”. But that is what she signed her name to, and that, therefore, is what I am reporting to you.
And who, pray tell, is the signee? Who does the DCCC think is going to rope in all those unmarried young women?
It is….(fanfare please)….
Gloria Steinem.
That\’s right, Gloria Steinem.
Did you even know she was still alive?
Ms Steinem, who celebrated her 80th birthday this year, is old enough to be the grandmother of the people this appeal is aimed at. Call me a pessimist, but somehow I don\’t think that her dialogue about “decisions about their own bodies” is going to resonate with the 18 – 25 crowd. They\’d probably be more comfortable with her telling them about a Colonial Penn insurance policy, or maybe Fixodent.
This is roughly the equivalent of the RCCC getting a court order to exhume Harold Stassen, and putting up a commentary in his name.
But, hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. Any port in a storm.
I wonder who they\’re going to try next. Maybe the ghost of Betty Freidan?
