--- title: Gloria Steinem Apologizes For Bernie Sanders 'Boys' Comment description: Gloria Steinem apologized for suggesting that young women are flocking to support Vermont Sen. 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Emma Watson -He For She- Speech_  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Feb 7, 2016 9:05 PM UTC  Gloria Steinem presents The Changemaker Award at the 2016 MAKERS Conference Day 2 on Feb. 2, 2016 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Gloria Steinem presents The Changemaker Award at the 2016 MAKERS Conference Day 2 on Feb. 2, 2016 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for AOL  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Feb 7, 2016 9:05 PM UTC Feminist icon Gloria Steinem apologized Sunday for suggesting that [young women are flocking to support Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders](http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/gloria-steinem-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-boys/index.html) to meet boys. The activist and founder of _Ms._ Magazine, who supports Hillary Clinton, said Friday that women become more politically active as they get older, but “when you’re young, you’re thinking, ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie,’” she said. Steinem said she “misspoke” when she [made the comment on _Real Time with Bill Maher_ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scO9gIpR8BI&feature=youtu.be)after being asked why she thought Clinton wasn’t doing better with young women. She apologized “for what’s been misinterpreted as implying young women aren’t serious in their politics.” “What I had just said on the same show was the opposite: young women are active, mad as hell about what’s happening to them, graduating in debt, but averaging a million dollars less over their lifetimes to pay it back,” [she wrote on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/GloriaSteinem/posts/10153237059092854). “Whether they gravitate to Bernie or Hillary, young women are activist and feminist in greater numbers than ever before.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4211234/gloria-steinem-bernie-sanders-apology/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4211234/gloria-steinem-bernie-sanders-apology/"},"headline":"Gloria Steinem Apologizes For Saying Young Women Support Bernie Sanders to Meet Boys","datePublished":"2016-02-07T21:05:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:42:15.286Z","description":"“The boys are with Bernie\"","url":"https://time.com/4211234/gloria-steinem-bernie-sanders-apology/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt071719de2feb3718/69887c89cf40a84343c41db4/gloria-steinem-bernie-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt071719de2feb3718/69887c89cf40a84343c41db4/gloria-steinem-bernie-sanders.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The MAKERS Conference 2016 - Day 2","caption":"Gloria Steinem presents The Changemaker Award at the 2016 MAKERS Conference Day 2 on Feb. 2, 2016 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.","creditText":"Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for AOL","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4211234/gloria-steinem-bernie-sanders-apology/","name":"Gloria Steinem Apologizes For Saying Young Women Support Bernie Sanders to Meet Boys"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Emma Watson - He For She - Speech","description":"Emma Watson -He For She- Speech","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0clamGjK/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-09-22T11:27:02.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0clamGjK.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4211234/gloria-steinem-bernie-sanders-apology/","duration":"PT23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4211234/gloria-steinem-bernie-sanders-apology/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```