Remember when Biden said day care centers were monuments to our growing unwillingness to accept personal responsibility? Or how he interrogated Anita Hill and made her say a porn star name and then said he wished there were something he could have done to stop the line of questioning she got? Or the score of women who accused him of inappropriate touching which he made light of? Or his support of the Hyde amendment? Or the Mexico City Policy? Or his vote for the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act?
His one piece of legislation that was pro-women was the Violence Against Women Act, but that's just part of his tough on crime schtick. His own arguments for it were about harsher sentencing, not about protecting women. He's a fucking dinosaur when it comes to women's rights, and has only been reluctantly pulled left to stay viable.
Meanwhile, Bernie has a 40+ year track record of fighting for women's rights. After Hillary's campaign in 2016 cast aspersions about unequal pay on Bernie's campaign (though records showed her campaign was far worse), Bernie is running the first ever unionized campaign for presidency. His staff have a unionized contract with guaranteed equal pay, addressing discrimination and workplace harassment. He's got a 100% rating from NARAL and Planned Parenthood (Biden is 75% and 40% respectively). He cosponsored the 93 Freedom of Choice Act (Biden opposed). He's always been against the Hyde amendment. He's voted several times to allow women to travel interstate for abortions, voted to increase access to women's health organizations (Biden absent each vote for these), and supported the Prevention First Act for funding access to contraception.
Bernie wants to raise teacher and nurse pay as a way to close the equity gap. He's a cosponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act of 2019. He cosponsored the FAMILY Act (paid family leave). He again cosponsored ERA. Equal pay is one of his 12 points on his economic agenda in 2020. He's voted to reauthorize VAWA and ERA every time it has come up. His record has been uniquely consistent over the decades.
Who owns the majority of student debt and medical debt? Women of color. Who makes up the majority of minimum wage workers in America? Women of color. His policies are uniquely tuned to help women and communities of color.
And above that, his voting coalition is 60% female as is his donor list.
But let's make this about a handshake and a closed door meeting.