If Nancy Pelosi is a problem for Democrats, it's because Republicans are good at sexism

[Hamlette]

Nancy Pelosi is the best legislative leader of her generation, at least. Yet she is widely seen as being at least as much of a burden to her party as she is an asset, even as her male counterparts lag behind her in accomplishments. Why is that? For the same damn reason Hillary Clinton was so widely and easily demonized by her political opponents: too many people can’t deal with ambitious, successful women, and the Republican Party is here with tens of millions of dollars to exploit that.
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Before the 2010 midterms, the National Republican Congressional Committee cited Pelosi in an astonishing 70 percent of its ads—far more than the percentage that cited Obama. And for good reason: Internal Republican polling showed that Pelosi was far less popular than the president. After Democrats lost their House majority that fall, Congressman Allen Boyd of Florida, whose reelection bid failed, called hers “the face that defeated us in this last election.”
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For a 2010 paper in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the Yale researchers Victoria Brescoll and Tyler Okimoto showed study participants the fictional biographies of two state senators, identical except that one was named John Burr and the other Ann Burr. (I referred to this study in an October 2016 article for this magazine called “Fear of a Female President.”) When quotations were added that described the state senators as “ambitious” and possessing “a strong will to power,” John Burr became more popular. But the changes provoked “moral outrage” toward Ann Burr, whom both men and women became less willing to support.
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[GWC58]

1. Nancy should be the next Speaker!

Why, why, oh why do we allow ourselves to be used by the sexist, among many other issues, party. This is damn rediculous! We should really stop listening to “that party.” Let’s not let their prejudices influence us!

[greymattermom]

2. If that's the case,

why were so many of Karen Handel's ads anti Nancy instead of anti Jon? In Georgia, Nancy was depicted as representing the San Francisco life style, not so much as a woman per se.

[JI7]

3. because republican women like Handel support policies that do little to help equality

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it's the same reason republicans have no problem with Ivanka's disgusting role in the white house. she is there to prop up her disgusting father . she isn't actually doing anything to help women.

[Hamlette]

10. "San Francisco life style" gay

assholes.

[Phoenix61]

4. Yep!

Women can be as strong and as smart as the men allow them to be. Sadly, other women can be just as bad. However, it seems that the young women from Parkland aren't the least bit intimidated by all that old nonsense.

[Hamlette]

8. and they will recognize the attempts by the GOP to destroy people and stand up to it!

They must be vigilant however. "Crisis actors" could follow them. Assholes.

[rainin]

5. They're just good at demonizing our strong leaders and we're really bad at protecting them. n/t

[Renew Deal]

6. It could also be that she is a $100 millionaire

[Hamlette]

9. your point?

That all rich people are evil?

JFK, FDR? Stereotypes are evil.

[jalan48]

11. I think it might be helpful if we put forward someone whose income is more in line with

the average American, man or woman.

[samnsara]

7. Nancy will be SOTH once more!!!!