african-americans do nd of women especially from those clinton campaigns when madeleine albright and gloria steinem went out and they said we will vote for our the person not for a woman because she is awo woman. that feminism was meant to accomplish to give them the right to vote for whoever they wanted not identity politics.two book so my one book is all aboutre what you talk about that is the funny thing about the campaign because it was the battle like a caricature coming out of the steam room and frank sinatra of 1959 with mike tyson and don king would the celebrities and then hillary was really pushing gender were everything was like a of slumber party with cady perry so it did make the funny gender contrast. >> winning the of pulitzer 1999 for a commentary her most recent is of the cover that trump and hillary are coming down.al >> redid the escalator but the when he held her hand i guess he is not scared. but it is a funny ad image for some data was scared of stairs. >> caller: good afternoon. i just noticed she said how nice the first lady is but yet she is not living in the white house an

gloria steinem hates it.t the real housewives absolutely, they record documents the way women are in a group. maybe not dissenting women, maybe not lesbian women, and tucking the heterosexual women. in a group.i love to be around heterosexual women talking in a group.consider light of day men. that's why the stylus and so on and so forth.it is a weird energy. that women have with each other. it was all way back to the hunting and gathering arab where women were all talking with each other around the heart while the men went off hunting and had to be quiet and silent while they stopped the prey. you see?the targeted men did not last long. [laughter] but, at the same time so i do feel that transgender people and many gay men occupy middle ground between the sexes. and a tremendous amount of history of the arts was created in a middle ground. that the transgender -- had a vision of the universe. but by logically speaking, every single cell of the human body has a dna code that tells you the actual gender of the

especially were a rude awakening to the clinton campaign, you know, when madeleine albright and gloria steinem when out and was like you zero it to feminism to vote for hillary and they were like no, we don't we will vote for the person we are not going to vote for a woman because it she's a woman. that's what feminism was met to a cobbler shall exactly what these young women were saying to give them the right to vote for whoever they wanted to, not an identity politics, so i suggest you get my last two books because one of them is all about exactly what you are talking about and that was the funny thing about covering the campaign because it was this like billie jean king bobby ring battle of the genders because trump was so most like a caricature of a macho man. you picture him coming out of a steam room in vegas with frank sinatra 1959 and he had mike tyson and don king and holidays macho former felons as his celebrities and then hillary because she had not pushed gender in 2008 was really pushing gender in this caricature way where everything was like a slumber party with lena don him and

and of course, the lifetime award has gone to people like hillary clinton and gloria steinem and operaow, jane goodall, who i am so excited to meet and be able to speak to. charlie: you have not met her before? >> no. charlie: my goodness. >> we are meeting here at this table. charlie: how you feel on receiving this? not the first award for you. >> it is a great honor. everything like this is helping me to get out a message to people which i think is tremendously important at this time when we are doing so much to harm the planet, when there is so much discrimination, when there is so much to try and put right. charlie: lack of understanding of how curious it is. >> it is really precarious. climate change, if you deny climate change, there's something very strange. you know, the fact we have had an impact on the warming of the conclusive from all the scientific reports. charlie: you have brought some friends with you. >> yes. about carbon dioxide and burning fossil fuel adding to greenhouse gases. so too with heavy meat eating. when you cut the forests down , it changeses co2 protein t

and not feel that they have to obey any list link a checklist issued by gloria steinem and company in manhattan. >> do believe sexes and is relevant? you have to stop blaming men for their unhappiness that women are treated as less smart or less capable? and it seems that your words reinforced the notion especially in terms of the workplace. >> so believing in the removal of olive phoenix's with the professional and political realm so absolutely i am focused on workplace sexes of but but what i say with my riding we are not simply working individuals there is a very public side and private side of our lives. i talked about the psychological mankind they're all kinds of impulses and us do want to understand herself as human beings? we cannot simply defined human beings of what we are in the workplace or in the political realm that was the biggest legacy of the '60s anything from turning away from materialistic career to be on that cosmic quest of meaning in the universe a dual perspective of i am talking about women's advancing in society and also the need as human beings to expand our

there's a wonderful line in gloria steinem's memoir that which is quoting robin morgan. she's a politically correct person but did lovely stop saying that he generalizes, love particular rises but i think it also, hate divides and love connects area and but, i think that indivisibility is a foundational principle but articulating some of the practical and economic also kind of ritual and moral ways , you can't deal with these things in isolation. i know that reverend barber was this person in north carolina has seen connecting economic justice and racial justice is a really important part of the project and then kind of not trying to leave anyone out. it's art of what the struggle is is to not leave anyone out. >> last question, pertaining to the women's march, what is the importance of eatingcats. >> . >> i think. >>. >> (a different question. >> that was john's question. >> and that was awesome. kind of like cat woman. [laughing] >> rebecca solnit everyone. [applause] >> amazing. thank you all for being here tonight. go to the back of the room and form a line. thank yo