{"id":16247,"date":"2020-03-06T20:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T01:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16247"},"modified":"2020-03-06T20:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T01:43:31","slug":"an-unexpected-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16247","title":{"rendered":"An Inconvenient Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/warren-sexism-2020\/\">https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/warren-sexism-2020\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Democrats are not going to be the ones to get a woman elected president. This party, as currently constituted, is never going to fully get behind a woman candidate, because no real woman can match the pubescent fantasy of a woman Democrats seem to want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;&#8230; the pathway for Republican women is actually fairly obvious. Talk about \u201ctraditional\u201d \u201cfamily\u201d values. Slut-shame single women who use birth control. Be socially and fiscally draconian. Couch traditional Republican bigotry toward people of color in the language of \u201ccommunity safety.\u201d Don\u2019t be openly more intelligent than a man with a high school diploma. Have a racially appropriate husband. And be just spicy enough that you remind a condescending white man of his \u201clittle spitfire of a granddaughter,\u201d but not so spicy that you remind him of his second wife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;It will happen because Republicans are comfortable with their sexism, while Democrats refuse to confront their own. Democrats won\u2019t embrace misogyny like Republicans, but won\u2019t examine it long enough to overcome it. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/warren-sexism-2020\/&#8220;Democrats are not going to be the ones to get a woman elected president. This party, as currently constituted, is never going to fully get behind a woman candidate, because no real woman can match the pubescent fantasy of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16250,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16247\/revisions\/16250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}