I don't understand why we're supposed to care about this shit. I have no way of knowing who's telling the truth or if they're both slightly misremembering shit. Warren seems to believe her stance, Bernie seems to believe his, I don't think either of them are outright liars, well, anymore than any other politician.
I'm not even convinced it would have been a sexist comment to say if you didn't think a woman could win against Trump. As I said in the other thread I don't think a Muslim-American could win in this climate and I don't mean that as a knock against any Muslim, I mean the electorate are racist, prejudiced fucks and I can't imagine enough people willing to vote for a Muslim right now. I still have no historical evidence a woman can actually win the electoral college, so long as that stands winning the popular vote just means we're close not that it's de facto possible a woman can win the Presidency in todays' America. Of course, as with all things like this you're right until the day you're wrong, I'm sure most people were feeling pretty iffy as to whether enough people would vote for a black President until Obama was elected. Of course I understand the problem with telling people shit's not possible and never upsetting the status quo, someone will be the first female President but you'd never get to that day without actual running female candidates and no higher power's going to come down and tell you when the first time is going to be in advance.
So I really can't be too invested in a comment that I'm not even sure has malicious sexist intent to begin with.
But on the flip side, even as a Bernie supporter I wouldn't be too shocked if he wasn't sexist. Championing women's rights or backing female politicians doesn't really mean shit when they're not running against you or for a position above you.
I can't even see how people think either side has killed their own campaign, I don't feel worse about Warren or Bernie over this.
