From Cosmpolitan: At a panel discussion in New York City on Thursday evening, feminist leader and icon Gloria Steinem, 82, made it clear that she has no intention of slowing down, or giving up her position as a generational leader of the feminist movement – especially not under a Donald Trump presidency. “I’m not giving […]
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Did living as she did as a child influence her thinking – I, personally, feel that it did. After reading Gloria’s background it has to reflect on her today and the way she has walked through life and, certainly, must have influenced her thinking.
But, why would you have so much hate in your heart for someone who wants to help women? She doesn’t even want to give him a chance to prove himself? So that tells me something. And the fact she was okay with Obama who has been a fraud and she backs him? There are some women who love to be abused – is that the case here?
The Steimans lived and traveled about in the trailer from which Leo carried out his trade as a traveling antiques dealer. Before Steinem was born, her mother Ruth, then aged 34, had a “nervous breakdown” that left her an invalid, trapped in delusional fantasies that occasionally turned violent. She changed “from an energetic, fun-loving, book-loving” woman into “someone who was afraid to be alone, who could not hang on to reality long enough to hold a job, and who could rarely concentrate enough to read a book.” Ruth spent long periods in and out of sanatoriums for the mentally ill. Steinem was ten years old when her parents finally separated in 1944. Her father went to California to find work, while she and her mother continued to live together in Toledo.
While her parents divorced as a result of her mother’s illness, Steinem did not attribute it to a result of chauvinism on the father’s part, and she claims to have “understood and never blamed him for the breakup.” Nevertheless, the impact of these events had a formative effect on her personality: while her father, a traveling salesman, had never provided much financial stability to the family, his exit aggravated their situation. Steinem concluded that her mother’s inability to hold on to a job was evidence of general hostility towards working women. She also concluded that the general apathy of doctors towards her mother emerged from a similar anti-woman animus. Years later, Steinem described her mother’s experiences as having been pivotal to her understanding of social injustices. These perspectives convinced Steinem that women lacked social and political equality.
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