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[elisi]

Rebecca Solnit: Unconscious Bias is Running for President
On Elizabeth Warren and the False Problem of "Likeability"

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[lynnenne]

Great read, thanks for linking to this.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

This is an issue for me as well. Our women candidates are stronger than most of our men candidates (and, as per usual, as better with plans and ideas for the various issues our country needs to address), but they are backburnered in comparison with the male candidates. Our Puritan roots are showing, I'm afraid. Woman have to 'sparkle' and 'be interesting', but not too intelligent (snobby), too aggressive (bitchy) or too forward thinking (air-fairy daydreaming). It makes me sick, it truly does.

*HUGS*

[sea_thoughts]

Honestly, having a "ball shrivelling" voice sounds like a superpower to me, one that could be used daily. >:)