On Friday, actress/director/political activist Lena Dunham campaigned for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. During her speech, she accidentally called Clinton “Hillary,” and apologized for it.
“…and I feel that these women, were they to have the opportunity to listen to Hillary the way that I did —sorry, I called her by her first name—they would be as moved as I was…”
Dunham lamented the “horrific” attacks on Clinton’s gender “from the media,” saying it’s “just more evidence of the fact that our country has so much hatred toward successful women, and an inability to separate their accomplishments from that of powerful men.” The audience responded with cheers.
Lena—sorry, I called her by her first name—added how angry she becomes when anyone suggests she supports Clinton because she’s a woman, saying feminists do not “go walking towards the nearest vagina and vote for them.”
“Nothing gets me angrier than when someone implies that I’m voting for Hillary Clinton because, frankly, because she’s a woman. Thank you. It’s not like we have some feminist version of beer goggles called ‘estrogen blind,’ which causes us to go walking towards the nearest vagina and vote for them.”
