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Also every white guy currently explaining the (extremely real) villainy of white women to me can take a seat until they’ve come to collect Joe Manchin, almost all of the Republican Party, and the vastest share of Trump’s base.
To be clear, that is not letting Collins, 53% of white women & MANY generations of their forebears off the hook! My new book is in part about ww’s eagerness to support a white capitalist patriarchy & in doing so leave their sisters to suffer. Which is what Susan Collins just did.
No wait, clearer: Not just leaving sisters to suffer. Actively participating in the further oppression and subjugation of people of color, women and men. But be clear—white women aren’t coming up with this horror all by their lonesome.
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Whose challenges are framed as aggressive and whose are practically indiscernible as disruptions? Relevant to my interests:
This is power dynamic I write about in Good & Mad. @Ocasio2018’s civic participation gets framed as problematic, eruptive. But 5 white guys come for Pelosi from right & it’s just a tactical move. Women’s raised voices are problematic, men’s are comprehensibly professional.
More than comprehensibly professional: some people are granted political validity at the outset. Others are understood as chaotic, divisive, suspect and disruptive to legitimate politics.
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I know that this race is too close to call but I just have to say that McBath’s path here, the fact that she is this close to victory on GA-6, is astounding. This is the district Jon Ossoff could not win. Dems! Get behind women of color!
Lauren Underwood, Sharice Davids, Ayanna Presley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Deb Haaland, Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia, maybe Gina Ortiz-Jones...this is the future, looking to the women who have long been the democratic base, for leadership.
Reminded that I left out Jahana Hayes. (And probably others! I’m still catching up on lots of races)
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Have been talking non-stop about how women’s anger is treated as both laughable and infantile. Thanks Orrin Hatch, for continuing to be a walking fucking advertisement for my book.
A reminder that 27 years ago, Hatch called Anita Hill’s story “too contrived...so slick it doesn't compute” and suggested that she borrowed it from the Exorcist.
Actually while we’re here, let’s check the tape of Orrin Hatch, laughing as he reads a passage of the Exorcist to Clarence Thomas. Who’s been on the Supreme Court for 27 years. nytimes.com/video/us/polit…
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