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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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