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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I found Obama unlikable and he’s a male supposedly.
You misspelled boinkable
John McCain, Mitt Romney
Trying to guilt people into pretending they like the slut.
This from the “Orange Man Bad” brigade.
Was the author a bitter broad who will die alone with her empty wine boxes or a ‘man’ who weeps silently, alone, curled on the floor every night?
If she, like Hillary is an unlikable bitch...
She is an unlikable bitch.
Now, try to chastise me away from that lol
The display of arrogance smarmy smirks and facial expressions shows us all she is not very smart
“Princess Resting Bitchface” is really, really unlike-able!
Perhaps “Can’t Understand Normal Thinking” May be more apropos
But it fits her like a glove.
I wonder how Margaret Thatcher could be strong and respected and competent? Seems Leftist women have an intractable mean steak that no makeup can cover.
“It’s not our fault that Democrats are awash in unlikeable women. Don’t think much of the men either.”
All democratic men are synthetic women fueled by soy products. Except they are bitchier and whinier and have to call Triple A if they get a flat tire
She is the type women would want their husbands to sleep with.
I think I'd go for Hillary -- At least it would be some top quality wine & food, and maybe she'd get tipsy enough to tell me some juicy stories about Bill or Barack. I feel like Kamala would be a cheap-skate, maybe even make the date "Dutch Treat" when the check arrives. But again ... if Hillary decided to hit on me, that would be super awkward (as I don't "bat for the other team") And yep, Kamala is extremely unlikable and condescending, and that has nothing to do with her being a woman.
If you don’t vote for Joe Biden, you ain’t female.
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