Thread and article from November 2017:
Reactions to Serena reminded me of this piece:
“While we accept it as “normal” when male politicians shout, interrupt, hog the stage, or aggressively interrogate, when Hillary raised her voice it was described as “screeching”....(1)
Reactions to Serena reminded me of this piece:
“While we accept it as “normal” when male politicians shout, interrupt, hog the stage, or aggressively interrogate, when Hillary raised her voice it was described as “screeching”....(1)
....and both Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris were told to shut up when they claimed too much time on the Senate floor. (2)
In Feb., Warren was famously rebuked by Mitch McConnell (“She was warned…nevertheless she persisted”) when, during confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions, she read a critical letter from Coretta Scott King. (Male senators later read the same letter without being cut off)..(3)
In July, Richard Burr ordered Harris to be silent and lectured her about her lack of “courtesy” for not allowing poor Sessions to ramble on evasively as she questioned him during the Senate Intelligence Committee into Russian interference in the 2016 election...(4)
No one, as I recall, took Trey Gowdy or any others to task when they hammered away at Clinton during the Benghazi hearings.”
(P.S. today: Nor were Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, or Andre Agassi penalized for lack of courtesy on the court...)
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(P.S. today: Nor were Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, or Andre Agassi penalized for lack of courtesy on the court...)
bordocrossings.com/single-post/20…
