WHAT SHE SAID
Women’s groups have sought to tamp down gendered criticism of Senator Kamala Harris
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As the vice presidential nominees sparred on a debate stage this week, feminists took to social media like it was their own spin room.
Female voters have learned quite a bit since 2016, they revealed this week, as they pounced on any whiff of unequal treatment of Senator Kamala Harris. Having watched Hillary Clinton get pummeled by misogynistic tropes and memes four years ago when she was the first female major-party nominee for president, many women are making it clear: This time, they’re not having it.
Anticipating that Harris will face even more vicious attacks due to the double-barreled biases that Black women experience known as misogynoir, women’s groups banded together this summer to bolster her.
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Related:
— ‘Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking’: Women praise Kamala Harris’s response to Mike Pence’s debate interruptions
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