We have to shift the narrative on "likability" by defending the women as likable, not just by shaming misogyny. Shaming misogyny not only doesn't work against misogynists, it reinforces the false belief because it comes across as defensive; like we think it's true but we shouldn't say it.
Fuck that.
Elizabeth Warren is likable.
Let's go issue by issue
- "Pocahontas"
No one who is worth a shit as a potential voter cares about this. Anyone who cares about this as an important issue is either deeply stupid or a concern-trolling right-winger. The right-winger is unreachable and there's no understanding what will win a dumbass. She was told as a kid she had Native ancestry, and a DNA test confirms that she does. She didn't use it to get any advantages.
- "She drank a beer"
Fuck you. People drink beer. She doesn't pretend to be a boozehound, a bro, or a craft beer nerd. She had a beer in her kitchen in an informal setting. She didn't make a huge scene about it, she went and got a beer and drank it while she talked to people on Instagram Live. Fuck off. Beer companies sell millions of gallons of that bullshit every year, where do you think it's going? It's going into every bourgeois refrigerator in this country because we live in such an unrelenting hell even the little buzz you get off a beer (or 7) at the end of the day is a relief.
- "She needs media training"
You need go-fuck-yourself training. She's fine. Biden is a molester, and he's #1 in the polls. Bernie is a finger-wagging scold, and he's #2.
- "She's comes across like a grandma"
Grandmothers rule, fuck you.
- "Elizabeth Warren is an angry woman"
Nope. She gets mad sometimes, but she's a passionate defender of her ideas. She stays far more calm, cool, and collected than basically any male politician you'd care to notice, including our dumbfuck president, the weeping brat we just put on the SC. In the force of her passion she remains articulate and clear. She doesn't get flustered and stammer, she's tough as hell.
Angry woman. Angry black person. SO EMOTIONAL! Fuck these tropes.
Elizabeth Warren rules. Fuck all y'all. Fight me.