More Sexism

I won’t stop talking about this

Liza Donnelly
3 min readSep 1, 2024

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“Fox News host Jesse Watters said Vice President Harris, if elected, will ‘get paralyzed in the Situation Room while the generals have their way with her.’”

It is outrageous that a newscaster, in this case Fox News’ Jesse Watters, would say this about anyone, let alone a Presidential candidate. Secondly, I am quite bothered that MSNBC host Katie Tur (in video below) would even suggest that in some other context what he said would be okay. In NO CONTEXT is what he said okay. Symone Sanders-Townsend schools her, see below:

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I also want to update you on the JD Vance slur towards Kamala Harris and the Miss Teen USA contestant, Caitlyn Upton. First of all, the video of Ms. Upton is not new to social media, she has been ridiculed before and suffered depression and suicidal thoughts because of it. It’s very sad, and I hope she is okay now. As I said in my last newsletter, she is a victim of the patriarchy.

But did Vance apologize? Of course not. He has double-downed, and as I suspected he would, he claims it was a joke and “we should all be able to laugh…

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