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How many saw the moment where Warren was moved to tears at the DNC? And who shattered her dreams and millions of her supporters'? This man, Bernie Sanders,( watch as he pushes the woman's hand away in disdain after encroaching her space @4:00 on Bill Maher), did more harm to stop the two women we had any prospect of getting elected while his own was next to nil. While we talk about the toxic masculinity of trumpers, what about the mostly white male supporters of Bernie's on this side of the ledger?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XZ0Ct5wePQ

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Padma, This was an 11-yo video clip, but I view the damage as the amount of space the men feel comfortable taking up (encroaching on her nonexistent space) as well as the conversation between only the two of them as if the lady from Huff post sitting between them isn’t even present. They never ask her for her thoughts or opinions, because they both agree (culturally, without discussing it because this is how institutionalized sexism works-they’re both already operating from a paradigm in which the female is able to be ignored) they’re in the club of “white men who will make decisions amongst themselves.” I hope that 11 years later (today) men would be called out for this behavior. Kudos to the host, Bill Maher for directly addressing the woman.

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Yeah the BS clip is from 11 years ago and agree with your comment. But in the video, he gets angry or irritated that the woman objected to his incursion and he did not change (from that behavior) as we saw in his campaigns from 2016 the way he treated Hillary and in 2020 the way he treated Warren. Notice how quickly he reconciled with Biden. BS personifies anti-woman and his supporters, a subset of those who supported Obama in 2008 follow suit. I hope KH this time around gets better results with these men and she just might because we are in dire circumstances even one that they will understand.

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