{"id":30432,"date":"2016-09-27T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=30432"},"modified":"2016-09-27T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:20:54","slug":"first-debate-highlights-that-moment-every-woman-knew-what-it-felt-like-to-be-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2016\/09\/first-debate-highlights-that-moment-every-woman-knew-what-it-felt-like-to-be-hillary.html","title":{"rendered":"First Debate Highlights: That Moment Every Woman Knew What It Felt Like to Be Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I wasn\u2019t going to write about last night\u2019s debate, I really wasn\u2019t. And then I started watching it. My god. Wow. Let me just highlight a few things that stuck out to me.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with this:<\/p>\n

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Yep. You read that right. Clinton had five \u201cfleeting interjections\u201d while Trump had three interruptions (successfully grabbing the floor) and twenty-four \u201cfleeting interjections.\u201d Some have argued that that is an undercount, and that Trump actually interrupted Clinton fifty-one times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watching Trump talk all over Clinton while she smiled and retained her composure was fascinating, horrifying, and a bit too true-to-life. Not only did he interrupt her constantly, he did something I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever seen done in a presidential debate\u2014he talked over her while she spoke, during her<\/em> turn, in a sustained manner, essentially\u00a0carrying on a running commentary while she was speaking<\/em>. And she just kept going. She never lost her composure. She was steady, she was determined, she was amazing. And every woman who has ever had to coexist in conversation\u00a0with a less-prepared braggart who thinks he knows more than her knew exactly what it felt like to be Hillary Clinton at that moment.<\/p>\n

Oh, and then there\u2019s the part where Clinton pointed out that during the few years we do have access to his tax returns, because they were subject to an investigation, he had paid nothing at all in federal income taxes. Trump interjected, speaking over her momentarily: \u201cThat makes me smart.\u201d He later talked about the four bankruptcies his companies have been through in a similar way: \u201cI take advantage of the laws of the nation because I\u2019m running a company.\u00a0My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that\u2019s what I do.\u201d In other words, it\u2019s too bad Uncle Sam had to pay his bills. He\u2019s obligated to do whatever he can to take advantage of American laws and American taxpayers.<\/p>\n

And then there was the moment when things turned to race. The moderator\u00a0brought up Charlotte and Tulsa and asked each candidate: \u201cSo how do you heal the divide?\u201d Clinton\u2019s answer was standard, focusing on rebuilding trust and on criminal justice reform. Trump\u2019s answer? \u201cWe need law and order,\u201d he said. Law and order has been a racist dog whistle since at least the 1960s, as I\u2019m quite certain Trump knows. Trump then called for bringing back \u201cstop and frisk,\u201d a policy that promoted racial profiling by allowing police to stop and search anyone they deemed \u201csuspicious\u201d without probable cause. Trump attempted to portray this policy as a way to make things better\u00a0for African Americans and Hispanics, whom he claimed were \u201cliving in hell\u201d in our inner cities, ignoring the reality that those communities were the most vocal in calling for an end to\u00a0\u201cstop and frisk\u201d down in New York City, because those communities were the ones the policy targeted.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. When asked about healing the racial divide caused by police shootings of unarmed black men, Trump called for establishing \u201claw and order\u201d and bringing back \u201cstop and frisk,\u201d a policy that disproportionately targeted African Americans and Hispanics. When asked for a solution to a problem\u2014racial profiling\u00a0and the use of excessive force within policing\u2014Trump called for more of the same<\/em>. More policing, more profiling, more force<\/em>.\u00a0Can you say horrifying?<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re not done with the sexism.\u00a0Toward\u00a0the end, there was this:<\/p>\n

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The above meme states: \u201cSexism is a man screaming he has a better temperament than a woman who has been patiently waiting to speak after being interrupted 10 times.\u201d And\u00a0yes, that actually happened. Trump said, and I quote: \u201cI have much better judgment than she does. There\u2019s no question about that. I also have a much better temperament than she has.\u201d He said that after spending the entire debate interrupting her, talking over her, and getting angry, while she calmly kept her her composure.<\/p>\n

Actually, that\u2019s not the only thing there was at the end. There was also this bit by Trump, about Clinton and her campaign:<\/p>\n

[S]he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue. They\u2019re untrue. And they\u2019re misrepresentations.<\/p>\n

And I will tell you this, Lester: It\u2019s not nice. And I don\u2019t deserve that.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s certainly not a nice thing that she\u2019s done. It\u2019s hundreds of millions of ads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m reminded of this:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Parks and Rec, and Leslie Knope is running for City Council\u00a0against\u00a0Bobby Newport, the wealthy son of the area\u2019s largest employer. They\u2019re having a public debate. Leslie is very obviously better prepared, but Bobby pleases the crowd with his pithy overly-simplistic responses. During the debate, there\u2019s this exchange:<\/p>\n

Leslie: I love this town, and I\u2019ve worked my whole life to make it great. I believe that I\u2019ve earned you vote. Bobby Newport believes he can buy it. And maybe that\u2019s because he\u2019s never earned anything his entire life.<\/p>\n

Bobby: That\u2014that hurt my feelings. Hurt my feelings. You\u2019re supposed to be this positive person. Can\u2019t we just talk about things we like?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know what? Women running for public office could never get away with a response like that. It would be seen as weak, and as a sign that they\u2019re not ready for the rough-and-tumble world of politics. But somehow Donald Trump<\/em> can say that Hillary\u2019s ads are \u201cnot nice\u201d and that he doesn\u2019t \u201cdeserve that\u201d? Does he have any idea what Hillary<\/em> has had to put up with for the past forty\u00a0years?! Is the issue here that women are supposed to be extra specially nurturing, sweet, and nice,<\/em> and that when we\u2019re not, men get their feelings hurt?<\/p>\n

If you watched the debate last night, what else stuck out to you? If you didn\u2019t watch it, you still can! It\u2019s on youtube in its entirety.<\/p>\n

I have a <\/b>Patreon<\/b><\/a>! Please support my writing!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching Trump talk all over Clinton while she smiled and retained her composure was fascinating, horrifying, and a bit too true-to-life. Not only did he interrupt her constantly, he did something I’m not sure I’ve ever seen done in a presidential debate—he talked over her while she spoke, during her turn, in a sustained manner, essentially carrying on a running commentary while she was speaking. And she just kept going. <\/p>\n

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