Althouse: "Those horrible pink hats': midterms divide women in era of #MeToo."

November 3, 2018

"Those horrible pink hats': midterms divide women in era of #MeToo."

A nicely done, nicely balanced little film, from The Guardian. Watch the whole thing. I love the low-key, steadfast demeanor of the filmmaker, Paul Lewis:

41 comments:

tim in vermont said...: Inconvenient truth to liberals is red meat to conservatives so we have to question your motives, Althouse.
Sincerely, A. Liberal; 11/3/18, 8:48 AM
rhhardin said...: Structural politics is the most important thing. Everybody agrees on what would be nice to have but disagree diametrically abut what gets it and what prevents it.; 11/3/18, 8:59 AM
rhhardin said...: Some recognition that the pussy hats represent cat ears and not genitals would be nice.; 11/3/18, 9:00 AM
Wince said...: Report did not detract from the perception that identity politics rules the left right now.; 11/3/18, 9:03 AM
Diogenes of Sinope said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/3/18, 9:05 AM
Gahrie said...: Wait...I thought Warren was the first Indian woman elected to Congress?; 11/3/18, 9:06 AM
Diogenes of Sinope said...: It's flat out racism whether you are for or against based on immutable physical characteristics. It is disgusting and dangerous.; 11/3/18, 9:07 AM
Darrell said...: Don't talk to the Guardian, Republican women. They only pump out Leftist propaganda. Comments of readers there say Trump already took the votes away from minorities, women, and Native Americans. Yet they see the Blue Wave washing Trump and his evil cronies away.; 11/3/18, 9:16 AM
Diogenes of Sinope said...: We live in a time of mobs and tribes.; 11/3/18, 9:16 AM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: Nicely done is right. He let the candidates speak for themselves. Although I abhor identity politics and what that style of getting elected is doing to the U.S., I think the NA woman's answer that it's easy for people who have always been represented to say that they don't believe in identity politics, is a reasonable retort. I don't think it validates voting for people based on skin color or gender identification disorder or whatever physical characteristics they have, but her response does explain why it is appealing to the professional victim class.; 11/3/18, 9:18 AM
n.n said...: Sex politics. Sex in politics. And color, too.

The Guardian, Hope Solo, Progressive's next project: White girls next door. Insufficient diversity.; 11/3/18, 9:21 AM
Kelly said...: I didn’t know woman were a united, monlithic group, always in full agreement with each other.; 11/3/18, 9:21 AM
wild chicken said...: That's the first time I've seen the awesome Republican Women represented. And how thankless to be an R activist in a blue state! I know the feeling. I

Though I realize most commenters here would never dirty their hands by affiliating with a party. Eww ick..; 11/3/18, 9:23 AM
n.n said...: pussy hats represent cat ears and not genitals

Head like a hole... front hole, and labia majora?; 11/3/18, 9:24 AM
William said...: I don't know about women, but there have been a fair number of Native American men in Congress. Wasn't there a Native American Vice President. I have a vague memory of such, but he may have been a Republican and thus doesn't count......I thought the report leaned left, although the Dem candidate had a few damning moments .... .When she runs for Congress as a woman against the male patriarchy she's not espousing the values of her tribe but rather the values of the larger community, i.e. the white male patriarchy.; 11/3/18, 9:32 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: EDH said...

"Report did not detract from the perception that identity politics rules the left right now."

But it did make clear why it exists.; 11/3/18, 9:40 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: I wish both Democrats and Republicans would stop talking about how the other is so scared. Nobody's scared.

Get over yourselves.; 11/3/18, 9:41 AM
I'm Full of Soup said...: He called Trump's referring to Warren as Pocahontas a racist comment. That colors his entire report, for me, as highly slanted left.; 11/3/18, 9:43 AM
buwaya said...: The best proxy measure of Republican/Conservative fear, firearms background checks, is down a lot in September, a seven-year low. Trump is terrible for gun sales.

October data hasnt been released yet, due next week.

I suspect sales will improve a lot, relatively, if Democrats take the House.; 11/3/18, 9:51 AM
Diogenes of Sinope said...: Of course "low-key, steadfast demeanor" does not mean unbiased.; 11/3/18, 9:52 AM
Diogenes of Sinope said...: Woman are a united, monlithic group, always in full agreement with each other and it is NOT stereotyping or prejudice for leftists to say so.; 11/3/18, 9:55 AM
JML said...: When he stated his own identity had its own privilege after some nice women sang him happy birthday...well, that showed his bias. I was born in New Mexico and other than a six year absence from age 4 to 10 raised here, leaving after college. I was gone for 27 years, returning 3 years ago. It has always been a laidback state but it is now a welfare state.; 11/3/18, 10:01 AM
DEEBEE said...: Found the Guatdian reporter a wuss. An obviously Native American looking women, with presumable lack of the culture proclaims that she would somehow make difference. So we are supposed not to judge people on how they look. Which is it?; 11/3/18, 10:08 AM
Darrell said...: He called Trump's referring to Warren as Pocahontas a racist comment.

Pocahontas might be the distant ancestor hinted at by the statistician's DNA analysis. Right time frame.; 11/3/18, 10:11 AM
argasdoc said...: It is only balanced if you don't recognize the subtle slams that the reporter displays like his shocked look on his face suggesting she's crazy when the Republican candidate pushes back against his false claim that she said something that she didn't. Towards the end of his piece his statement that "if more women are going to be elected this year then Democrats need to turn out" is a blatantly biased-what about the nearly record # of Republican women running this year!?!? He did present some Republican women in fairly good light but the subtle slams are still present. The press is highly biased against conservatives and it is difficult for them to present anything without bias.; 11/3/18, 10:16 AM
wild chicken said...: Blogger AJ Lynch said...
He called Trump's referring to Warren as Pocahontas a racist comment

Right. As if Trump were calling her an Indian, when he was really calling her a so-called Indian.

Wilful ignorance.; 11/3/18, 10:43 AM
Bad Lieutenant said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/3/18, 11:25 AM
SweatBee said...: I'm not seeing the "unbiased" part, either.

Since this is coming from a newspaper, they're not inclined to acknowledge that their industry colleagues might have shortcomings, but I don't have much experience with newspapers keeping their facts straight or quotes correct when they do stories about me or my relatives, even when there is a recording device present. I doubt Guardian guy spent much time at all tracking down the source of the quote beyond, "the newspaper printed it!"; 11/3/18, 11:27 AM
Bad Lieutenant said...: buwaya said...
The best proxy measure of Republican/Conservative fear, firearms background checks, is down a lot in September, a seven-year low. Trump is terrible for gun sales.

October data hasnt been released yet, due next week.

I suspect sales will improve a lot, relatively, if Democrats take the House.

11/3/18, 9:51 AM

The Left may finally be getting into the game:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/socialist-left-guns-nra-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
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Reposted to correct excessive whitespace.; 11/3/18, 11:29 AM
David Begley said...: I met Paul Lewis at a Trump rally in Iowa. Nice guy. Very impressive. We exchanged some emails.; 11/3/18, 11:48 AM
cronus titan said...: Identity politics at its finest. A woman of Native American descent who grew up a military brat with zero connection to NA matters claims to be the voice of NA women because it turns out her DNA is correct.

Knew a guy in college like that -- always spouting off about his NA ancestry. Meanwhile both his parents were psychiatrists and he never visited, let alone lived on, a reservation or had any other connections. We referred to him as "LRDF" -- Little Running Dumb Fuck; 11/3/18, 12:50 PM
Lance said...: @William
Wasn't there a Native American Vice President.

Vice President Charles Curtis (R), 1929-1933 under President Hoover. Three of his great-grandparents were Native American.; 11/3/18, 2:59 PM
wildswan said...: "rhhardin said...
Some recognition that the pussy hats represent cat ears and not genitals would be nice."

They represent pussy.
Don't be a child.; 11/3/18, 3:04 PM
wildswan said...: Gahrie said...
Wait...I thought Warren was the first Indian woman elected to Congress?

Great point. Especially because at one point Haaland says she's never seen "herself" among any of people in Congress but at another point she refuses to comment on Warren's claims. Haaland certainly comes across as a woman with more of the vocal intonations and the attitudes of Native Americans than Warren and she is a tribal member. But then you see the tribal elders and she doesn't seem to belong with them or with the women sitting behind. What is a "real" identity in a time of change?; 11/3/18, 3:15 PM
TML said...: Not a single word about her positions on anything. Nothing. so, in fact it was 100% about her identity as a Native American.; 11/3/18, 3:39 PM
bagoh20 said...: Since they don't tell us, are we supposed to assume what policies she would push based on her DNA? Isn't that highly racist?; 11/3/18, 5:55 PM
bagoh20 said...: Is it more racist or less to constantly talk about race, often at the exclusion of all eles about a person?; 11/3/18, 5:58 PM
Gahrie said...: I was born in New Mexico

So was I in Alamogordo in 1965. I haven't been back since I was six months old.; 11/3/18, 8:21 PM
Molly said...: (eaglebeak)

1. Guardian is one of those standard anti-American left-o-Brit publications. Has almost no understanding of American politics.

2. There was a Republican Vice President, Charles Curtis (VP to Herbert Hoover), who was a significant percentage Indian (Kaw Nation) and was raised on the Kaw Reservation speaking Kaw as his first language. However, as was said, because he was a Republican, it didn't count.; 11/3/18, 11:22 PM
becauseIdbefired said...: Wait...I thought Warren was the first Indian woman elected to Congress?

Oh, I missed that. How much fun.; 11/3/18, 11:26 PM
JML said...: Gahrie - the food and weather is still good.; 11/3/18, 11:43 PM