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In 1972, the alternative newspaper Vermont Freeman published an essay by Bernie Sanders entitled Man — and Woman in which the future U.S. senator included a reference to a woman fantasizing about rape. After Sanders gained political prominence as a presidential candidate in 2015, that essay was brought to wider attention in a profile of Sanders published by Mother Jones on 26 May 2015: That essay sparked a debate about Sanders and his views on women, and conservative outlets such as Young Cons, reproduced a portion of the essay in an attempt to illustrate how it was hypocritical for liberals to demonize Republicans for waging a War on Women when Sanders had written about a rape fantasy in a 1972 essay: But of course, plenty of publications on both sides of the political spectrum have said a good deal about this atrocious Bernie Sanders quote. NPR, for example, reported that: CNN also covered the controversial essay in a piece that quoted Sanders' campaign spokesman describing it as stupid and a dumb attempt at dark satire:
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