Links for Later, Pre-Election Panic Edition
It’s almost time to vote! Image by Getty Images
Hello, Sisterhood readers! First off, there’s this thing happening next week, relevant to Americans, indirectly relevant to all. On Tuesday, November 8th. It’s Election Day in the U.S., and yeah, it would be an excellent idea for you to vote. Vote! Don’t just assume Hillary Clinton will win. She might not! There are all those silent “Ivanka voters” who may spring up unannounced! (Do these exclamation points properly convey my panic level about this election?!)
-In Elle, Mattie Kahn interviews some of the world’s most powerful women (Madeleine Albright, etc.), asking them “what it means to govern like a feminist.”
-At Vox, Constance Grady calls out the well-meaning but patronizing cases some male supporters of Hillary Clinton are making for her candidacy.
-At ThinkProgress, Ned Resnikoff makes the case that Ivanka Trump may turn into America’s version of France’s Marine Le Pen, and goes on to explain on Twitter how sexism plays a role in Ivanka getting portrayed as non-threatening. (I can only add that lepenisation — a real term, I promise — is a fair characterization of what’s gone on in American politics.)
-As the election-pocalypse closes in on us, let’s remember to vote! And, while we’re doing so, let’s remember Jewish women’s role in bringing about women’s suffrage in America.
-Not women-and-Jews, but necessary: in the Awl, Benjamin Hart parodies the now-ubiquitous over-sympathetic media coverage of Trump country.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy edits the Sisterhood, and can be reached at bovy@forward.com. Her book, The Perils of “Privilege”, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017.
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