It’s impossible to know how much misogyny played into Warren or Hillary’s campaigns; to quantify how much more or less successful these women could have been if their woman-ness was not a factor. Our disbelief and distrust in women runs too deep to be able to fully identify it. But I feel it. I feel it in every snake emoji, every conversation about Warren’s “viability,” every tweet accusing her of destroying the progressive wing of the party. Just because you can’t put numbers to it doesn’t mean its not true. It’s winking at me and sinking into my bones.
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