I have worked with a number of women candidates preparing for debates, always speaking to the importance of demonstrating responsible, compassionate leadership,
By maintaining her presidential posture and commanding posture, even as Trump lied and insulted her, she embodied the challenge to the ‘angry Black woman’ trope without uttering a word and without taking any of the bait Trump threw,
What we saw again last night was that Trump didn’t maintain a calm demeanor and avoid the verbal landmines Vice President Harris placed in his path,
Suppose that we had a menopausal woman President who had to make the decision of the Bay of Pigs or the Russian contretemps with Cuba?”
The history of women in the U.S. is replete with critiques of women as too emotional and therefore they aren’t capable of the hard work of public citizen,
The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl,
The performance by the two candidates last night should, but probably won’t, put to rest forever the myth that all men are rational and all women are emotional,
If he really said that, I would disagree with him.”
I choked for a few minutes and shed a few tears. And, oh, my goodness, the end of the world happened,
Sorry to ask anyone to watch him again,
Perhaps men are too emotional to be president.”
She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions,
The ‘angry Black woman’ trope has been used so often to undermine, dismiss and silence Black women,
I saw the debate yesterday, ... and I cannot tell one single reason why one single person would vote for Donald Trump – what he is saying about abortion, and immigrants, and eating dogs?”
I don’t know real America, to be honest,
Trump embarrassed himself yesterday, and continues to embarrass himself,
President Trump, make America great again!”
He talks about fictional characters, like Hannibal Lecter. He will talk about how windmills cause cancer,
Do you have any remorse?
But the debate offered him perhaps his best chance to cement his position in the campaign, and, like his somewhat disappointing convention speech, he missed a moment,