Why joy matters: Kamala Harris hopes happy women can defeat Donald Trump and MAGA's male rage

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Why joy matters: Kamala Harris hopes happy women can defeat Donald Trump and MAGA's male rage
Kamala Harris bets the election on women's joy. Donald Trump stakes his hopes on men's anger

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published August 19, 2024 6:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) I'm old enough to remember when the sexist stereotype of feminists was that they're "humorless" and "shrill." So it never fails to make me smile to hear Donald Trump, in ever-shriller tones, rant and rave about how much he hates Vice President Kamala Harris' laugh. Her guffaws haunt him. We cannot doubt he's kept up late at night, dwelling on his fear that a woman might be enjoying herself. At a rally in Asheville, North Carolina last week, Trump could not stop babbling furiously about Harris's laugh.

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While every presidential election is a complex machine involving millions of people with their own idiosyncratic opinions, there is a simple, visually arresting contrast defining this one: Harris' boisterous laugh versus Trump's relentless scowling.

This isn't just a personality difference between the two candidates, either. It speaks to a deeper cultural conflict that has been spooling out for years, with flashpoints like the #MeToo movement and the fight for abortion rights. It's about women asserting they have a right to joy and freedom, and the backlash from outraged men. It's about men who believe they're entitled to women's attention and even submission, and the women who laugh in their faces and say "no."

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On "Pod Save America" Friday, host Jon Favreau suggested Trump "wants to draw" Harris "into a fight" with these insults, but she's refusing to be baited. "She is barely talking about him," Favreau added, "or she's just talking about him like a washed-up entertainer." It's a far more effective strategy than earnest t-shirts proclaiming "the future is female." Harris is showing, not telling, by modeling how the progressive vision of an egalitarian future isn't just more fair, but more fun. She and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, demonstrate how much more relaxed and happy men and women are when they meet as equals and friends. Trump and Vance offer a grim and unappealing vision of gender relations, one where women are shuffling servants under the watchful eye of dour patriarchs. ..............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/19/why-joy-matters-kamala-harris-hopes-happy-women-can-defeat-donald-and-magas-male-rage/

[Walleye]

1. Men should not be in charge of anything important, they are just too emotional

[displacedvermoter]

2. Carville thinks Democratic and Progressive

women are "shrill" as well. Hence his desire for the mini-primaries that he hoped would deliver an all male ticket.

Thank goodness that never came to pass, though not for want of some folks really trying.

[nature-lover]

3. Check the photos. Are women who are around Trump happy? I don't think so.