Elizabeth Warren
In reply to the discussion: Warren Buffett Says Elizabeth Warren Is Too ‘Angry’ And ‘Violent’ With Rich People [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)Shows you how strategic their sexism is.
EW has always been softer spoken and warmer than HRC. None of this should matter because they're human beings and are entitled to their own demeanors, but had EW not been lasering in on the GD truth as well as she does, time and time and time again, the mainstream media would be all over her as so cuddly and soft-spoken. She raised a passel of children and wrote recipes and appears a lot more connected/concerned with people than HRC, who thank God (for her own sake, given the abuse heaped on her) has the steeliest demeanor I've seen on just about any politician.
That steely demeanor used to be used against HRC, but since she's towing the neoliberal line, those "standards" are tossed out the window and soft-spoken EW is pilloried for speaking a much steelier truth . . . I think precisely BECAUSE she delivers it so smoothly and warmly.
If the ever gets on a national campaign trail, millions of people are going to warm to her and her message. That's what terrifies them. She's very warm-cookies-grandmotherly, fiercely just, and open-hearted, and women and reasonable (non-threatened) men pick up on that.