On Monday, senator Elizabeth Warren became the first major Democrat to announce her intention to run for president. It’s actually very simple: the media focuses on the issues the Massachusetts senator stands for instead of fixating on her “likability”. The media stops using “likability” as lazy shorthand for: “Is the US too misogynistic to vote in a female president?” The media stops perpetuating the narrative that powerful women are unlikable. The way in which the media is already seizing on Warren’s likability suggests that, unfortunately, we might not have learned very much from 2016. The Politico article, by the way, didn’t go unnoticed by Warren’s campaign team, who quickly leveraged it for a fundraising email.

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2019 18:11 UTC