And then she’ll screech that nobody takes her seriously because she’s a woman. She made a choice to waste time on something a 12-year-old can do instead of showing executive skills and strategic thinking and organizing relief operations. It’s her choice to pose as a lunch lady and not as a leader. This is how she’s marketing herself to people.
Toadies can call this “leadership” but it’s pathetic, over-eager, fussy womanhood on display.
To be fair, male politicians do similar stuff. I don’t really care as long as they *also* do other stuff, but it seems like it’s just been a series of photo ops for Harris.
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That’s true but it’s like when a Jewish friend of mine kept forgetting his wallet when we’d go out. I told him, dude, you can’t play into the stereotype, you just can’t.
A woman serving meals switches on different feelings than a man. And this woman is yet to achieve anything without men pushing her forward. She didn’t even win the primary. She is only the nominee because a man stepped down and the spot became vacant.
As much as I despise her, I’ll give her a pass for this. The reality of media landscape and how people perceive action is that you also need to be seen doing something. The picture of George Bush giving his bullhorn address at ground zero after 9/11 is iconic for this reason. Yeah, he could be using his executive skills for better purposes (like planning the Iraq war, oh wait nevermind lol), but you can’t deny that visuals dictate politics and this has been the case for a long time now.
A good leader does both: strategize behind the scenes to make life better for his people and lets himself be seen doing it (to get political mileage, nothing wrong with that). Unfortunately these days, the latter has become the substitute for the former instead of being an addendum to the former.
The writer of the tweet who called this “true leadership” is a true retard, though.
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Unfortunately these days, the latter has become the substitute for the former instead of being an addendum to the former.
One of the greatest examples of this was when Obama went to Flint and did a photo-op where he pretended to drink a glass of Flint water to reassure the people that it was clean. Of course it wasn’t. The water’s still fucked, but people still remember that photo as a symbol of a problem he solved lol.
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The previous Chair of my department made quesadillas for lab assistants every Thursday. And everybody loved him. He’s a 6’3 guy who hunts and raises sheep. It’s endearing when he cooks. But if I started doing it at work, I’d immediately lose status. It’s the same as when a female professor started crying at the meeting on Tuesday and everybody ran to her to console her. Then a male professor started crying, and everybody simply cringed. Some behaviors confer status on men and others confer status on women. And these are different behaviors.
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