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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2019-02-27

"'Alexandria presents a challenge, because conservative men or men in general who are encouraged to objectify women are attracted to her, but she's also 'unmanageable' in that she doesn't exist for them,' Heldman said. 'She is a woman who not only has now formal power, but a lot of informal power, in that she doesn't give a damn what they think of her. I think it's a disconcerting place for men who may be used to attractive women seeking their validation.'

"That kind of inability to deal with a woman like Ocasio-Cortez is, in many ways, emblematic of the broader crisis facing the Republican Party, which is moving backward in terms of gender diversity in Congress even as Democrats add more women and people of color to their ranks each year [...]"

-- from "Conservative Men Are Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Science Tells Us Why." by Laura Bassett, 2019-01-11

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