"Indiasplaining"
Posted on 10/09/2020 1:52:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In reviewing Kamala Harris's performance in Wednesday night's debate, two thoughts occurred to President Donald Trump.
"Totally unlikable," he said during an interview on Fox Business. He also called her "a monster" - twice.
Trump, who has never been big on reading, is probably unaware of the historical roots of his likability and monster critiques.
To historians who study women in politics, it was obvious.
"Likability among male politicians is pretty exclusive," said Claire Bond Potter, a professor of history at the New School and the author of a book on political engagement. "This is part of a bigger problem that women have - a permanent outsider status in politics. They are always in the process of gaining entry."
One of the ways to deny women entry is to deny anyone would want to be around them in the first place. The suffragists felt this wrath. So did Hillary Clinton. And now Harris is, too.
The code words are everywhere.
"One of the things that a man has to do to become likable is to be perceived as the kind of guy you want to have a beer with," Potter said, referring to a phrase that was often used to describe Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and John McCain. "You know, it's very rare that one imagines getting to know a woman over a beer. And you never hear anybody say that he's the kind of guy you'd like to sit down over a glass of wine with, right?"
Trump and other male politicians know how to tap into that history of misogyny.
"These ideas are woven through society and really always have been," said Allison K. Lange, a professor of history at Wentworth Institute of Technology and the author of "Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement."
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If you find unlikable women unlikable, there’s something wrong with you...../s
In Harris’s case, unlikable is an understatement.
Just fock off WaPo.
They call him worse.
Apparently the Dems did not like her either. Wasn’t she the first candidate to drop out of the primaries?
I suppose Sarah Palin is likeable?
"Indiasplaining"
Look in the dictionary under ‘unlikable woman’, and if her picture isn’t there, somebody from the radical left removed it.
I must have an old dictionary. My entry under “unlikable woman” shows Hillary Clinton.
If Michael S. Rosenwald of the Post had sex with his married boss to secure his job, the folks in his newsroom would NOT like it...
Why?
Because it’s not fair.
But when a Harris does it she gets a pass. Doesn’t Rosenwald have ‘empathy’ for the people in Harris’
office who played by the rules & worked to earn promotions the old fashioned way - standing on their feet?
Maybe Rosenwald should take a look at how some women use ‘likeable’... to their unfair advantage.
Good Lawd. Stop reading into things. The media has tried to give victim status for failure and shortcoming of their awful personalities.
Some people are not pleasant. They are like nails down a chalkboard. It has nothing to do with its roots in the suffrage movement. But, according to this article - her crass personality is perceived that way because women are not one of the guys.
There are plenty of effective and strong women who just don’t carry a condescending and spiteful demeanor about them.
Kamala just like Hillary and Pelosi are not likeable people. Period. Spoken from a woman.
We still have to treat women nice. If you can’t stand the heat...
Lol. And she is a victims because she is nasty and condescending to others....not the people who are on the receiving end of her behavior.
Treat women equally.
She is not Pence’s wife. She is his Debate opponent. Is she equal or not? If she is, then treat her how he’d treat any other man while debating. Which is what he did.
As my dear departed mother would say Kamel-la wore a shit-eating grin on her face throughout the debate. That’s not likeable whether you’re male or female.
Someone please post the side-by-side photos of Skanka and Javier Bardem” (as the villain in “No Country for Old Men.”) Skanka is an evil dead ringer for him.
The hysterical leftists KNOW that Skanka had her @ss handed to her big time by Mike Pence.
They need to be honest with themselves: She lost, Pence destroyed her on the issues—and she’s an unlikable raging b*tch.
I am a woman, and I find her most unlikable.
I could add several other negative descriptions, as well.
Lame, WaPo.
Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris.... She’s as likeable as the rest of these stiffs....
Exactly.
Your nominee in #2016 was a woman. A sick, demented, sick woman.
You don't give us your best: Faux sucks (the mendacious mendicant), AOC sucks (bartendress), Klobuchar tried to kill her husband by denying access to Plaquenil (fortunately he had already been mailed the cure by the University of Minnesota clinical trial), Mrs. Bebo O'Rourke sucks (married a punk rawk loser who is resentful vs his billionaire father-in-law), and Jill Biden is a straight-up FREAK.
Listen, stop rigging the game with losers.
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