Tag: Power of Women

I wrote about how the kind of political rage that we take seriously is the rage of powerful white men. In this past couple of weeks, during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, we’ve seen all kinds of examples of the rage of the powerful white man, not just Kavanaugh but also Lindsay Graham, Donald Trump, and other members of the Republican party, all of them powerful white men, representing the interests of a white capitalist patriarchy. JW: Dr. Ford wasn’t angry, but there were some other women who were: to start with, the two women in that elevator, Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher. RT: The two women in the elevator, and the protesters who’d taken over Washington. RT: I think there’s a lot of value in the ability to express anger without fear of censure and recrimination. Since 1952, when they began measuring this, white women have voted for Republicans in presidential elections every year but two: 1992 and 1996—the Bill Clinton elections. JW: We’ve been talking about white women. What about women who are not white? She says something like, “I’m going to go get Trump,” and people in the media ask her, “Are you talking about killing the president?,” which of course she wasn’t. JW: Let’s talk about tears of rage.