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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, we're 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 didn't matter. he was still elected. arnold schwarzenegger. there is this piece about the women who covered arnold schwarzenegger who was accused b...

The threat of that is what kept weinstein's secrets for so long. >> absolutely. that's how the power dynamics work. they're not about sex, they're about power abuses. it wouldn't -- sexual harassment and sexual power abuses wouldn't happen if they didn't have the power to suppress, hire, fire, make or break the working lives of the women -- when we're talking about this in a professional context, that's one of the things that is in question as well as physical power. the fact that women are not believed, that they're shamed, that they're made out to be untrustworthy, crazy, vindictive, have ax...

Work. they're not about sex, they're about power abuses. it wouldn't -- sexual harassment and sexual power abuses wouldn't happen if they didn't have the power to suppress, hire, fire, make or break the working lives of the women -- when we're talking about this in a professional context, that's one of the things that is in question as well as physical power. the fact that women are not believed, that they're shamed, that they're made out to be untrustworthy, crazy, vindictive, have axes to grind, that's part of the threat. and the fact that they should feel ashamed. all of these things are pa...

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 haven't had a woman president yet, right? this is not unrelated. in is very related to the kind of bias that kept the presidency male for our entire 240 years of american political history. >> the society of am...

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 she's having to wrestle this troll, right? she's 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 doesn't care about that feminist conversation. that's not what donald trump was talking about last night. he wanted to humiliate her in the way he knows how to humiliate women, which is sexually, to shame them, make them feel bad...