Column: Elizabeth Warren blew up the rules about female rage and came away without a scratch
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took flak from all sides in Wednesday’s contentious debate. The fireworks were a sight to behold. But politically inspiring? That’s another matter.
Warren has never been afraid of strongly worded declarative sentences, either in person or on Twitter, but on Wednesday night she took it to a double-standard-shredding new level. From the momentto say, “I’d like to talk about who we’re running against: a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. And no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump.
She wasn’t just determined or confident or pointed or any of those things female candidates often choose to be for fear that unsmiling anger, so beloved by Bernie Sanders supporters, will be tagged in them as shrill and unattractive. She was outraged. Controlled, complete-sentence, full-paragraph outraged. Over Bloomberg’s history of sexist remarks and NDAs, the tactics of the Bernie Sanders campaign, the scantiness of Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar’s healthcare plans.
Outrage over Clinton being seen as less “likable” than Trump, the #MeToo movement and a slow but steady increase of women in leadership positions has cleared space for women to access the same range of emotional traits as men. Controlled women are no longer “icy”; outrage is no longer “hysteria.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proved that a woman can dance and ask the tough questions. Millions of women showed that it is possible to march and wear pink “pussy hats.” When ousted from her position as the first female president of the recording academy,
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