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What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders?
NYU ^ | February 28, 2017 | Eileen Reynolds

Posted on 03/06/2017 9:07:44 PM PST by RegulatorCountry

After watching the second televised debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in October 2016—a battle between the first female candidate nominated by a major party and an opponent who’d just been caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women—Maria Guadalupe, an associate professor of economics and political science at INSEAD, had an idea. Millions had tuned in to watch a man face off against a woman for the first set of co-ed presidential debates in American history. But how would their perceptions change, she wondered, if the genders of the candidates were switched? She pictured an actress playing Trump, replicating his words, gestures, body language, and tone verbatim, while an actor took on Clinton’s role in the same way. What would the experiment reveal about male and female communication styles, and the differing standards by which we unconsciously judge them?

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To: RegulatorCountry

Fascinating. Thank you for finding and posting it.


41 posted on 03/06/2017 11:26:47 PM PST by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: JennysCool

Very good comment, Jenny..


42 posted on 03/06/2017 11:47:07 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: RegulatorCountry

That was pretty damn fascinating, IMO.


43 posted on 03/06/2017 11:58:59 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: RegulatorCountry
A highly interesting post.  Thanks...

I watched 5 minutes of the mock debate with the actors at NYU.  They were very skillful actors, and were able to portray the gender switching quite well, I thought.

Here's my thinking:

So I came away believing (more strongly) that the gender doesn't really matter.

Curious what others thought...??

44 posted on 03/07/2017 12:09:23 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: Salamander

Additional background and amusing schadenfreude from viewer reactions, courtesy of the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/theater/he-said-she-said-gender-bending-the-presidential-debates.html?_r=1


45 posted on 03/07/2017 12:19:46 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: AZLiberty

Glad you enjoyed it.


46 posted on 03/07/2017 12:20:05 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
an opponent who’d just been caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women

Once again, they continue to spread that lie. He never bragged about sexually assaulting women.

47 posted on 03/07/2017 12:20:52 AM PST by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: TXBlair

Thanks. Regarding your question, If any of them actually got “redpilled” I’d be very surprised, but voluntarily getting their own noses rubbed in exactly why they were idiots might have some future value. They’ve likely never encountered such an experience.


48 posted on 03/07/2017 12:24:35 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: poconopundit

I came away believing that gender matters to a bizarre degree, to the left. They’ll agree with the female over the male, period. And, when subjected to role reversal with exactly the same debate points, even when including visual cues, mannerisms and verbal tone, they still dislike the male and prefer the female, to their obvious discomfort. It’s all gender all the time, nothing but gender. For the left.


49 posted on 03/07/2017 12:28:57 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Titan Magroyne
This demonstrates that they're not thinking at all, they're reflexively genuflecting before symbols, even when the ideology isn't aligned with their own. That has got to terrify certain über-leftist agenda setters and kingmakers. They had to dismantle Sarah Palin as if their lives depended upon it, because based upon this, it did.
50 posted on 03/07/2017 12:35:13 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Is it possible to overdose on schadenfreude?

I’m feeling a bit giddy.

;D


51 posted on 03/07/2017 12:51:03 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Many were shocked to find that they couldn’t seem to find in Jonathan Gordon what they had admired in Hillary Clinton—or that Brenda King’s clever tactics seemed to shine in moments where they’d remembered Donald Trump flailing or lashing out. For those Clinton voters trying to make sense of the loss, it was by turns bewildering and instructive, raising as many questions about gender performance and effects of sexism as it answered.


This is a fascinating psychological experiment. It looks like many of the liberals who attended the performance had their identity politics shaken.


52 posted on 03/07/2017 1:57:35 AM PST by Flick Lives (I want to live long enough to see all Deep State operatives executed)
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To: RegulatorCountry

No comment on this waste of digital pixels. Who would write crap like this?


53 posted on 03/07/2017 2:19:16 AM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Then Trump would’ve won even more bigly.


54 posted on 03/07/2017 3:23:42 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Am still chuckling over the “punchable” adjective, cited in both the original & the NYT link in #45, that one play-goer used to describe the Clinton portrayer. That smugness of one’s better (and heir to the throne by outright manipulation & calumny) in the presence of an audience of lessors could suddenly be apprehended.

As a female myself, I am freshly reminded that to about 50% of the ppl with whom I interact, I am & will forever only be an obese white middle-aged female, interchangeable & synonymous with any & every other fat white lady they run into. These folks literally think in symbols - categories of simple imagery, instead of taking each stranger as an individual. Doesn’t hurt my feelings because I don’t perceive myself as the one with the deficiency, but it’s helpful in life to understand how others interpret my presence.


55 posted on 03/07/2017 3:24:52 AM PST by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Well, since humans do not have “gender” but rather sex, and since you can impersonate the opposite sex but not become it, the question is moot.


56 posted on 03/07/2017 3:29:48 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: RegulatorCountry

This is one of the more fascinating events I have ever read about.

“Liberals” had to go through an intensive/extensive expenditure of time/energy/labor in order to see the obvious.

In all fairness, though, they are commended for making the effort, and especially commended for actually recognizing (instantly!) that the outcome was the opposite of what they confidently expected.


57 posted on 03/07/2017 3:42:49 AM PST by Gratia
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To: RegulatorCountry
Isn't it at lest a little bit possible it was politics and actual issues that decided the election and not gender?
People chose an accomplished person with a positive message over a corrupt individual who accomplished nothing good despite a long tenure and who has been on the wrong side of every issue.
I think a "Donna Trump" would have done just fine.

58 posted on 03/07/2017 4:40:11 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

What if liberals had a brain?


59 posted on 03/07/2017 4:42:21 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

What if liberals had a brain?


60 posted on 03/07/2017 4:42:21 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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