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We are taking these kinds of power abuses and sexual abuses seriously and putting them on the front pages of newspapers, and talking about what they mean structurally as far as gender impairty. yes, were taking it seriously for the first time. we took this seriously a year ago. 20 women, more than 20 women accused donald trump of assault or harassment. donald trump was caught confessing about being able to grab women, you know. if he wanted to. it didnt matter. he was still elected. arnold schwa...

The threat of that is what kept weinsteins secrets for so long. >> absolutely. thats how the power dynamics work. theyre not about sex, theyre about power abuses. it wouldnt -- sexual harassment and sexual power abuses wouldnt happen if they didnt have the power to suppress, hire, fire, make or break the working lives of the women -- when were talking about this in a professional context, thats one of the things that is in question as well as physical power. the fact that women are not believed,...

Work. theyre not about sex, theyre about power abuses. it wouldnt -- sexual harassment and sexual power abuses wouldnt happen if they didnt have the power to suppress, hire, fire, make or break the working lives of the women -- when were talking about this in a professional context, thats one of the things that is in question as well as physical power. the fact that women are not believed, that theyre shamed, that theyre made out to be untrustworthy, crazy, vindictive, have axes to grind, thats ...

It is related to the kind of imbalance of power, the way that male public, political power has been associated with sexual power and power abuses, the way that women have been viewed and treated as objects having less power, less equality than the men who have behaved toward them in this way and that those are the bigger forces that have contributed to the kinds -- to the reasons why we havent had a woman president yet, right? this is not unrelated. in is very related to the kind of bias that ke...

This person, whatever you think about her, she is in this historic role as the first woman to get this close to the american presidency and shes having to wrestle this troll, right? shes working through the muck of misogyny. now, let me say something. there is a reasonable feminist conversation to have about bill clinton, his sexual power abuses. right? donald trump doesnt care about that feminist conversation. thats not what donald trump was talking about last night. he wanted to humiliate her ...

Candidates husband of sexual misdeeds or assault in the past and he brings them in and has a press conference and then brings them in the room and, you know, the dynamics there of taking this person, whatever you think about her, she is in this historic role as the first woman to get this close to the american presidency and shes having to wrestle this troll, right? shes working through the muck of misogyny. now, let me say something. there is a reasonable feminist conversation to have about bil...

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