Trump, Sex, and the New Gender Politics
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
With this year’s Presidential election, gender politics has entered a new dimension. Rebecca Solnit joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how women are taking their revenge on sexual harassers and predators, through social media and in the voting booth. Has Donald Trump sparked another feminist revolt, and if so, why are so many younger women reluctant to support Hillary Clinton?
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| 1:11.7 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:17.6 | It's Thursday, November 3rd. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:23.0 | Last week, when Megan Kelly interviewed Newt Gingrich on her Fox News show, he accused her and other journalists of giving undue attention to the charge that Donald Trump is a sexual predator. |
| 1:34.3 | What I said is if Trump is a sexual predator, then it's a big story. |
| 1:39.5 | And what we saw on that tape was Trump himself saying that he likes to grab women by the genitals |
| 1:45.0 | and kiss them against their will. |
| 1:46.7 | You are fascinated with sex and you don't care about public policy. |
| 1:50.3 | That's what I get out of watching you tonight. |
| 1:53.4 | You know what, Mr. Speaker, I'm not fascinated by sex, but I am fascinated by the protection |
| 1:59.1 | of women and understanding what we're getting in the Oval Office. |
| 2:03.3 | And I think the American voters would like to know. |
| 2:05.2 | And therefore, we're going to send Bill Clinton back to the East Wing because, after all, you are worried about sexual predators. |
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