'What does it mean, after all, to want a woman president? Do we want her because she’d make history? Or do we want something weightier than representation?' onesarahjones writes
Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP/Shutterstock With Elizabeth Warren out of the Democratic primary, matters return to status quo. The party’s next nominee for president will be a man. Online, post-Warren grief converged on those men, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders; on their whiteness and their elderly qualities. Although they possess vastly different ideologies, their traits, not their beliefs, are what provoke consternation among many. To an extent, the frustration is credible. The U.S.
Warren lost, in part, because she could not resolve the contradictions of her case. As an establishment critic who wanted to unify the party rather than purify it, as a foe of capitalist excess who still believed in capitalism, she remained at odds with herself. Even so, Warren’s platform advanced the material interests of women far more than Clinton’s did in 2016. Warren thus leaves the primary with a valuable distinction. She is the most feminist woman to run for president.
It is obviously true that sexism dampened Warren’s appeal, even among women. Sexism can have a seductive appeal, even to those it harms. It promises safety, tells women they can fend off danger by telling men they make some good points. But sexism doesn’t explain everything about the failure of Warren’s campaign.
But while Biden helped write VAWA, he can’t otherwise claim to be much of a feminist. On abortion rights, a key issue for NOW, Sanders has the superior record. When he launched his latest campaign for president, Biden still supported the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of public funds for abortion. Sanders did not. In a 2006 clip published by CNN, Biden said he did not “view abortion as a choice and a right.
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