Freedom vs. choice: Dahlia Lithwick decries semantics of gender politics, debunks ‘women’s vote’

Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate, tells “Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer that women are trapped by the language of politics, calling the notion of a “women’s vote” “reductive.” Lithwick also distinguishes between “freedom” and “choice”: “Men just get to live. Women, on the other hand, are bound up in this language of ‘choice.’” Lithwick says the word “choice” is “fraught” because of “the idea that at every turn women have to bargain, barter, settle, compromise — that a whole woman’s life is the sum of these complex choices.”