America Ferrera wants to hang out with Hillary Clinton
Actress says she admires the presidential candidate
What enthusiasm gap?
Actress America Ferrera really, really digs Hillary Clinton. In fact, she has her fantasy hang with the Democratic candidate all planned out.
“I am a first-generation American, millennial, female voter who is not only voting for Clinton but also really likes her,” Ferrera writes in an essay for Latina magazine. “She’s the kind of woman I’d share a bottle of wine with.”
Ferrera has other ideas for her imaginary gals-in evening with Clinton, spelled out in the piece penned as part of a celeb series sponsored by Emily’s List. “I’d like to literally stream Netflix and chill with Hillary. Seriously, I’d be down to snuggle in onesies with a pint of mint chocolate chip and do a Gilmore Girls binge with Secretary Clinton.”
If this happens, we demand Instagram proof, please, though the former secretary of state, as far as we know, has never weighed in on whether she’s a fan of the once-and-future female-led show. (One of Clinton’s predecessors, Madeleine Albright, cameo-ed in the fictional Stars Hollow, along with other pols, such as Sen. Barbara Boxer and former senator Olympia Snowe.)
Ferrera’s affinity for Clinton, she writes, isn’t because (as mean tweeters have suggested) “because I’m a stupid, uninformed, misguided feminist who only knows how to vote with her ignorant vagina.”
Nope, not that — she’s got her reasons.
“Maybe I really heart Hillary because I was raised by a single mother who woke up every day and did the unglamorous and gruelling work of providing for her six children. Maybe that’s part of why I’ve come to recognise and admire Hillary for showing up, day in and day out, for the promise of unsexy, slow-going and hard-won progress.”
