I have to agree.

The evils of politics as we know them have come to rain some hell down on feminist circles and distracted us from our usual pursuits, but the conversation we’re finally having is long overdue. As for the vitriol, I tend to think that there is a bit of a generational divide going on that is prone to triggering mother-daughter instincts, which can easily result in everyone getting too worked up really quickly. As it does within a family.

At the same time, there are very real divisions within feminist politics that are laid bare under the pressure of the Democratic primary. White, middle class women’s issues have for decades been at the forefront of the movement at the expense of other women’s needs. And Hillary Clinton personifies that image. It’s a tarnished image, and to me, not the right symbol of feminism in the 21st century.

I was devastated when I watched Gloria Steinem slam young women who support Bernie as simply chasing boys. Those words were like a punch to the gut for me, and I doubt I was alone in feeling a sense of violence in that offhand remark. She looked at these young women and saw the Other. And then she othered us. Bill Maher was right; he couldn’t have said that and gotten away with it, and she won’t be allowed to either.

It is time, I think, for intersectional feminism to be the working definition of feminism. And a discussion of intersectionalism, I think, leads inevitably to a favorable view of Bernie.