Saturday, November 12, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s Celebrity Feminism Was a Failure

11/12/2016, 9:00:41 AM · by Magnatron · 8 replies
The New Republic ^ | November 10, 2016 | Sarah Jones
Clinton’s campaign strategy, especially when it came to appealing to white women, indicates that she and her staffers didn’t quite grasp these dynamics. Her campaign employed a candy-colored brand of female empowerment seemingly based on the assumption that white women’s political priorities are influenced by the pop culture they consume. White working-class women weren’t going to vote for Clinton just because Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, and Sheryl Sandberg were. These celebrity overtures were out of step with the priorities and concerns of white working-class women. How can you “lean in,” as Sandberg implores working women to do, when...

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