There‘s No Such Thing as Trickle-Down Feminism
Holly Wood
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I don’t know who you are endorsing with this, and it fascinates me that you’ve chosen a handful of moments out of Clinton’s life, to depict her as lacking empathy. The woman who graduated from law school and went to Oakland, to clerk at a firm defending activists and the Black Panthers. The woman who moved to Cambridge and worked for the Children’s Defense Fund. Who moved to Arkansas to teach law and run the first legal aid clinic. Why do those years of service, of reaching a hand out, to serve truly desperate people, mean so little to feminists? She worked pro bono for child advocacy and wrote legal papers people still cite, 40 years later. This isn’t even getting into the work she did later for families in Arkansas and worldwide with the charities she ran.

I literally have no idea what it means to be feminist if a handful of stories mean more than decades of trying to lift others.