Remember when Hillary Clinton was not considered “likable.” Katha Pollitt recently wrote in “The End of Likability” that the days of “likable women” candidates are over. What is a “likable” woman? One who doesn’t talk too much. Who isn’t too loud. Who isn’t too sexy. Who isn’t too dowdy. Who isn’t “shrill.” Who doesn’t make too many waves.
Remember when Rashida Tlaib said of Trump, “We’re going to impeach the motherfucker.” Republicans had a fit. In 2004 when Dick Cheney on the Senate floor told Sen. Pat Leahy to go fuck himself, Cheney later said it was the proudest moment of his life. Nobody had a fit.
I suppose I should decry the coarsening of American politics and note that just because Cheney has a potty mouth doesn’t mean Rep. Tlaib should speak like that. But I won’t. I agree with Katha Pollitt. I don’t see why women should “play nice” while we have a misogynist pussy-grabbing president. Fuck that.
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