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They wouldn’t be pickin’ on her is she was a guy!
by John Krehbiel on 27 October 2008
And other myths:
2008-10-27 » John Krehbiel
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28 October 2008 @ 10:33 am
General rule: any time people say “they wouldn’t do this if she were a man” (or “if he were white”) it’s probably false.
28 October 2008 @ 10:38 am
This whole “like the common man” thing is pretty weird.
We expect politicians to wear suits. Most people in America don’t wear suits. (Not even in business anymore.)
I don’t think a politician could do very well if he went around in Dockers and a plaid shirt.
So we expect them to be a cut above the hoi polloi.
OTOH, we don’t want elitists because we have a justified fear of ivory-towered idiots with grand theories.
So it seems that what we really want is somebody with working class roots who made it into the big league but still kept a lot of those working class sensibilities.