Will We Abandon Womens Rights in the Name of Progressive Politics?

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113. Progressives are not anti woman

I have long been a progressive. I have agreed with and supported Bernie Sanders because I have thought many of the same things over the years.
I am a woman and have been a feminist before feminism became popular when I was a kid. My mother taught us girls to think independently and do for ourselves and that women are equal to men.
I have been a big backer of New Deal policies and ideas.
I have never agreed with or cared for the DLC/New Democrat Clintonism that has ruled the party for the last 25 - 30 years.
I always felt they were too republican leaning, too reliant on exclusive professionals while ignoring those on the ground experience and knowledge, experiencing things in the everyday. I felt Clintonism was too corporate friendly and backed privatizing over solid government workers who knew their stuff. I felt clintonism also pitted interest groups against one another as well as abandoning unions and working people.
I don't know how anyone can think Progressives are anti woman.
If its because we laud the tradition, a long tradition in the party, of being open to different ideas and to not demonize someone because they may not agree with me 100%. I try to learn and listen to other people.
Making the party an exclusive club who exclude anyone who may not follow lock step to 100% thinking is only copying the republicans.
Its what made the republicans crazy. They became a cult and not a party