00:00I think as a voter, we're adrift a little bit, or I feel adrift, as to what it is I'm
00:04voting for.
00:05What he's saying was ridiculous.
00:07The blatant racism, just to me, is just so offensive.
00:09There's no recourse. Candidates can say whatever they want to.
00:12I feel like you should set the bar as high as possible.
00:15I cannot vote for anyone on that side, and therefore I'm almost stuck voting for a Democrat.
00:21If you can't trust the people voting for president, that's a problem.
00:30I have to say, we women are not afraid of hard work.
00:34And that's good, because we've got some hard work to do.
00:37Do you think there is anything inherently unfeminist about voting for a man when you could vote for a woman?
00:43No.
00:44I don't.
00:45Not at all.
00:45I think you vote for the person who's going to do the best job possible,
00:49and I think that boiling down Hillary Clinton's campaign to just vote for her because she's a woman,
00:55it actually does her injustice.
00:57I also think it's hugely reductive in the same way that I think that voting for someone just because you
01:04align with their party is reductive.
01:05I think that with Hillary, with Carly, whomever the candidate is, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat, it has
01:12to be issue-based.
01:13We hear a lot about women voters and women's issues, and I wonder when you hear that, what does that
01:19mean to you?
01:20To me, it's reproductive issues as well as equal pay.
01:24I understand the colloquial use of the term women's issues, but the fact is, the gender pay gap as well
01:30as reproductive issues,
01:30these are issues that affect all of American society.
01:34It's not like they just affect women.
01:36You know, if you take away the right to reproductive health in America, that's going to affect men as well.
01:42You know, there are a lot of issues that are going to arise from that, and to say that it's
01:45just something that affects women, I think, is unfair.
01:48I think everything is a women's issue, and that's what I really want to emphasize in this election,
01:51that to separate a man's issue and a woman's issue, I don't think we should be doing that going forward,
01:55that everything is a women's issue, and that is where it kind of ties in that I'm a feminist who
02:00believes everything is a women's issue.
02:01Given the current climate in the U.S., given the number of state laws that we've seen popping up that
02:07restrict abortion access,
02:09do any of you worry that the outcome of this election could restrict your or your friend's access to choice?
02:15Absolutely.
02:16Absolutely.
02:19So this is actually, so if I was a single issue voter, this would be the one thing that I
02:23would be a single issue voter about.
02:25If you restrict abortion in this country, it's going to disproportionately affect people from a lower socioeconomic status.
02:30So you're not going to impact the women who have enough money to go to Canada or elsewhere to get
02:35a legal abortion.
02:36You're going to impact the people who don't have enough money to feed their kids now and are going to
02:40have to go to the black market to get an abortion.
02:42And I think that's something that the conversation is missing right now.
02:46Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights once and for all.
02:53Let's keep fighting for opportunity and dignity.
02:59Just your visceral gut reaction to that ad.
03:02That whole clip was just to sort of give a subliminal message about how Hillary Clinton talking about women,
03:10that's negative because I'm going to throw in all these negative images in there,
03:14that actually have no connection to what she's saying.
03:17What does Bill Cosby have to do with any of that, like with Hillary Clinton?
03:22It goes back to where we're talking about what we believe women's rights to be.
03:25And to me, it is the woman's right to choose to make whatever decision she wants to make.
03:29So if Hillary Clinton decides to stay with her husband, that's her decision to make.
03:33It is not our, it's not our right as a society to constantly judge women to making,
03:38from making personal decisions that affected them.
03:40And I feel like that constantly happens.
03:42And people like Trump, using that in a way to say that you're anti-feminist because you make a personal
03:47decision that we don't agree with, is quite frankly, bull .
03:51Here is the reality, and I think if all of you are honest, you will admit that this is the
03:57reality.
03:59Conservative women are held to a different standard than liberal women.
04:03Does anyone agree?
04:05Yeah, I think that there's a lot of, I think if you are a woman, even here,
04:10and you're taking a conservative point of view, there is this feeling like walking into this room
04:14that you have to defend yourself, that like there's going to be, people are going to take you to task.
04:18It would be much easier, I think, to sit and be like, I have a group of people around me.
04:24There are a lot of conservative women, but a lot of people are afraid to say that.
04:28I think, you know, if you're a conservative woman and you announce that, the first thing is,
04:32wait, so you're against women? Like, I feel like you might have gotten that so much,
04:35even though like you're allowed to have a completely valid list of other issues,
04:38which are equally important to you. But I think I would understand why you're on the defense of so much
04:43where you really shouldn't have to do that.
04:44I feel like we're all going to have to give you a good call.
04:47My name is Alex Polkinghorne.
04:48My name is Sian Dupre.
04:50My name is Ruth.
04:51My name is Afshan Dosani.
04:52My name is Lacey Hatchett.
04:53My name is Bena Shah.
04:54I'm Bree Patrick.
04:55I definitely consider myself.
04:56I consider myself.
04:57I do consider myself.
04:58I consider myself a feminist.
05:00Feminist.
05:00Feminist.
05:01I am a feminist, yes.
