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telesilla:
Gonna go out on a limb and say that we’ll be real sick and tired of the word “likable” by the end of 2020.
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My partner and coworker have each separately said “I don’t care who runs, I don’t care what color or gender they are, I just want it to be someone who can beat Tr*mp and who doesn’t rile up the Republicans!”
Finally I said “Anyone who isn’t a white man is going to rile up the Republicans and I don’t think that’s really enough of a reason to say with your mouth that it would be fine for a woman to run but then act with your feet to make sure a woman doesn’t run. At that point you’re just doing it for them. Literally any woman with the ambition to run is categorically unsuited because she’s too ambitious and ambition in a woman is unlikable. Think that the fuck through before you agree with one single commentator saying that.” And then I found the thread where a commentator pulled receipts on a beautiful representative sample of many people who said Hillary was too unlikable and literally held up Warren as a “likable” counterexample who are now saying Warren is “unlikable”. Same goddamn fucking people, each time: uncanny.
Here’s the thread. (link is to a thread by @ashtonpittman on Twitter.)
Listen to yourselves. Ugh.
tweet by @m_tisserand: Please forgive the crudeness but replace “unlikable” with “unfuckable” and every man’s intention with that statement becomes very clear. (9:52am 3 Jan 2019)
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tweet by @megelison: A woman is unlikable the minute she wants something you don’t want to give her. (1:52 pm 2 Jan 2019)
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telesilla:
Gonna go out on a limb and say that we’ll be real sick and tired of the word “likable” by the end of 2020.
…
My partner and coworker have each separately said “I don’t care who runs, I don’t care what color or gender they are, I just want it to be someone who can beat Tr*mp and who doesn’t rile up the Republicans!”
Finally I said “Anyone who isn’t a white man is going to rile up the Republicans and I don’t think that’s really enough of a reason to say with your mouth that it would be fine for a woman to run but then act with your feet to make sure a woman doesn’t run. At that point you’re just doing it for them. Literally any woman with the ambition to run is categorically unsuited because she’s too ambitious and ambition in a woman is unlikable. Think that the fuck through before you agree with one single commentator saying that.” And then I found the thread where a commentator pulled receipts on a beautiful representative sample of many people who said Hillary was too unlikable and literally held up Warren as a “likable” counterexample who are now saying Warren is “unlikable”. Same goddamn fucking people, each time: uncanny.
Here’s the thread. (link is to a thread by @ashtonpittman on Twitter.)
Listen to yourselves. Ugh.
tweet by @m_tisserand: Please forgive the crudeness but replace “unlikable” with “unfuckable” and every man’s intention with that statement becomes very clear. (9:52am 3 Jan 2019)
and
tweet by @megelison: A woman is unlikable the minute she wants something you don’t want to give her. (1:52 pm 2 Jan 2019)
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Date: 2019-01-04 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-04 09:57 pm (UTC)I don't believe the Democrats will ever win by running Republicans Lite. The biggest thing is they need someone who can be inspiring and present an actual vision, and that means riling up the Republicans quite a lot.