In case you haven’t kept up, ABC News chief political analyst Matthew Dowd has put country over party and is now an Independent, meaning every single tweet of his supports the Democrats, regardless.
We’re not sure the women running for president against Donald Trump in 2020 are going to want to take Dowd’s advice, which seems awfully sexist.
If i were Senators Klobuchar, Warren, Harris, and Gillebrand I would soon do an event together where they stand side by side and say they stand as one even while they run against each other, and say any petty attack on one is an attack on all.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) February 11, 2019
And they should hold hands. And make each other friendship bracelets. And pinky-swear that they’ll be sisters forever. Let’s hope they do this.
You would never tell men to do that. https://t.co/mtNsWiESaP
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) February 11, 2019
First, it seems he forgot to include Tulsi Gabbard in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and second, it’s funny that he didn’t suggest Cory Booker and Julian Castro and Pete Buttigieg do the same thing.
The soft bigotry of low expectations strikes again—now with implicit support from Nth wave feminists, who would render all of us women weak, fearful, and dependent.
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) February 11, 2019
Exactly. His tweet is patronizing. He seems to think the “ladies” can’t handle the combativeness of politics.
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) February 11, 2019
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Of course he wouldn't, because like all male feminists, deep down @matthewjdowd doesn't believe that women are equally competent and therefore must be lied to, condescended to, and shielded from the harsh realities of competition. He thinks they should have tea instead of fight.
— Scott Delaney (@scottpdelaney) February 11, 2019
When you progress so hard that you end up going backwards..
— Alisa S Elliott (@a_suzette_e) February 11, 2019
It’s like he is taking estrogen.
— BQ (@BruceQuinlan) February 12, 2019
Well it's not like he can tell men to step up, not with his privilege, gotta use his voice to promote those with more oppression points. That way he can be a good boy, might even let him keep his testicles intact.
— Iain the other Goat. (@iain_claxton) February 11, 2019
Funny thing is he’s trying to virtue signal.
— Duke Ian MacNeal (@Ian_MacNeal) February 12, 2019
Maybe they could all wear white when they announce this! It would be so symbolic! And meaningful! ??????
— ann.on.a.mouse (@annonamouse4) February 12, 2019
And we should all hold hands and sing kumbaya….. Or we could hear each individual's ideas and pick the best one???
— Paul (@TheRealPaulReam) February 11, 2019
Or instead of pulling some intersectional bullcrap, how about having an actual platform and be able to articulate it.
— Eric The Viking (@EricJohnViking) February 12, 2019
Senator Klobuchar is more than equipped to handle the petty BS all by herself.
— Kenneth Kaplan (@drkenkaplan) February 11, 2019
1) Terrible, infantilizing idea. But…
2) What about @TulsiGabbard–is she not a woman? Is she not also running for President? (First woman to announce her campaign, in fact.)— ??Deborah #FeelTheBern Newell Tornello?? (@litbrit) February 12, 2019
Notice how he excluded @TulsiGabbard from his list? Because the MSM is actively trying to undermine her campaign.
And the media attacked her, so it ruins their narrative.
— Sean Kaye (@skaye) February 11, 2019
I guess Tulsi Gabbard isn't good enough for the Strong Womyn Club
— DC (@ResistLife) February 11, 2019
Dowd doesn’t yet seem to have grasped that he’s giving some terrible advice.
How about for the rest of time the mens just let women be and take all of their unsolicited advice, write it on a tiny piece of paper, and put it under their pillow. pic.twitter.com/lbmATK6Nks
— Tyler King (@TylerAKing) February 11, 2019
So men can’t give women advice? Do you also advocate for women not giving men advice? Lordy.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) February 11, 2019
You've already demonstrated an inability to listen to women. Again.
— Aly ? (@alywelch) February 12, 2019
Because women are always expected to rise above. You’d never suggest this for male candidates
— Jane Austen (@JaneAusten1813) February 11, 2019
this is super patronizing – why just women? why not add booker in there (and bernie if he runs)? the optics of this would be horrible… like none of them is strong enough on their own so they need to band together for their mutual self-defense.
— AllAboard (@AllAboard99) February 11, 2019
It also sounds like he's telling the women that they need to get together to assure people they won't start cat-fighting. Cause you women with their drama, right? ?
— Lattitude (@Catseriously) February 11, 2019
That's stupid. Calling out records and histories isn't an attack.
— #RunBernieRun (@Statistar30) February 12, 2019
— ELP (@greenyad81) February 12, 2019
That is so incredibly condescending. You probably don't even see it. That's the scary part. When I see a "female" candidate, I don't see a "female", I see a candidate. Period. Please stop this BS.
— Anthony S. Khoury (@askmeabouthelaw) February 12, 2019
I presume you expect all the men who've declared to do the same?
— Margaret Clegg (@mclegg11) February 11, 2019
Um, do men do this? We aren't all sorority sisters. I bet you'd love to see them all cute and cuddly together. But don't be mistaken, they're killers who clawed their way here despite men like you trying to mitigate them.
— Nicole Najafi (@NicoleNajafi) February 12, 2019
Can we get one more woman in there and then they can run on "Girl Power" and call themselves the Spice Girls?
— Tristan Pinnock (@tpinnock) February 11, 2019
Definition of mansplaining. Sit down, dude.
— Jess Winfield (@jesswinfield) February 11, 2019
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 11, 2019
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