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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNancy Pelosi is an alien species to Trump - and he has no idea what to do
The Guardian:To Trump, a womans worth is measured by her sex appeal, and age knocks some points off no doubt because, for many women, age also increases confidence and conviction. Trump loves women, but really, he loves it when women play along with his fantasies of what a woman should be. He simply does not consider women peers and equals. Just look at his cabinet: hes appointed twice as many men as women. Day to day, hes surrounded by advisers who are almost entirely white and largely male. As far as diversity goes, there are as many men named Alex in Trumps cabinet as there are women with brown hair.
He is also particularly appalled by women who dont go out of their way to compete for male attention and enraged by women who challenge men directly. When Carly Fiorina ran in the Republican primary, he told Rolling Stone, Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next President? He added: I mean, shes a woman, and Im not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious? His vitriol toward Hillary Clinton is well-documented, and went far beyond normal political sparring. His attacks on female detractors inevitably zero in on their looks.
But aside from insults, he doesnt really know how to deal with assertive older women, because for his entire life they have existed outside of both his immediate view and his broader imagination. When he talks about women, its obvious that only a small subsection of us fit into his definition; some might have qualified, but by virtue of challenging him can be written off as bimbos; a few others are witch-like hags who have surrendered their claim to womanhood; and the rest are simply invisible.
The women of Trumpworld have a single role, and that is to say yes. Trump has long bought and paid for that acquiescence. Now, Pelosi is telling him no, and she has real power and cant be ignored, replaced, or waved away. They arent in direct competition (as he was with Clinton and Fiorina), so he is less able to leverage more generalized public sexism to win his battle against her. Hes used to women helping him feel like a big man. Now, heres a woman who makes him look small and impotent.
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Nancy Pelosi is an alien species to Trump - and he has no idea what to do (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2019
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Nancy Pelosi is the adult in the room telling the 6 year spoiled rotten brat so called president
democratisphere
Jan 2019
#3
trump CAN NOT handle NO, and is 10x worse if uttered by a woman, the only thing to make that worse
beachbum bob
Jan 2019
#6
Glad we ignored all the anti-Pelosi swipes some people posted here to undermine her leadership.
FreepFryer
Jan 2019
#10
Yup. It's validating to hear a crazy weather report by people whose heads are up their asses. Nt
FreepFryer
Jan 2019
#12
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. The author Iain Banks called it an "extra-contextual problem".
An extra-contextual problem is a problem you can't solve because you don't even understand the premises.
He likened it to natives on an isolated island seeing a steamship for the first time.
roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)8. Great Banks reference
Wish I was living in the Culture right now!
samnsara
(17,623 posts)2. the women even have a dress code for the WH....
..thats sexual in nature
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)3. Nancy Pelosi is the adult in the room telling the 6 year spoiled rotten brat so called president
"NO"!
Apparently it is working.
tblue37
(65,423 posts)4. K&R for visibility. nt
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)5. Just keep calling him a baby and a fat ass. He will eventually explode.
AwakeAtLast
(14,132 posts)14. Like a Dr. Pimple Popper video
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)6. trump CAN NOT handle NO, and is 10x worse if uttered by a woman, the only thing to make that worse
would be NO said by a non-white woman
Vinca
(50,285 posts)7. Nancy might be the only person in his life to say "no."
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)9. Like with Hillary, women her age really don't exist for him. They are of no use.
So her being in the public eye is irritating at best.
So many men just want these powerful women to just "go away."
And they don't. Thank Maud.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)10. Glad we ignored all the anti-Pelosi swipes some people posted here to undermine her leadership.
Some people, that is.
Farmer-Rick
(10,192 posts)11. True that
Now, we got a lot more anti-Democrat swipes coming our way. Be prepared to ignore them and keep moving forward.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)12. Yup. It's validating to hear a crazy weather report by people whose heads are up their asses. Nt
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)13. the author nails trump and then dissects him
Jill Filipovic has a clear view of the combatants.
But while Trump has snaked and slithered his way in and out of scandal, corruption and self-dealing his entire life, theres one force that seems to truly destabilize him: a competent woman. Which is why, in the Trump era, theres no better speaker of the House than Nancy Pelosi.