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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
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    See http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/us/politics/trump-clinton-debate-body-language.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/781179797678411776 …

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    More on abstraction leaks: presidential debates are body language contests that occasionally leak into verbal, and even make sense sometimes
    10:12 AM - 28 Sep 2016
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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
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        attacking? He was just doing his job given the amount of heckling-interrupting he was doing!

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
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        look at the interrupt rates as tracked by many sources. I've never seen a prez debate with that much.

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
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        implicit norms also make us overlook that women are interrupted more without consequence, talked over etc, that's way more imp

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
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        chivalry instinct is pathetically weak in most men these days and a rounding error wrt to what women do themselves in self-defense

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        tldr you probably didn't notice hillary used powerful self-defense assholery-mitigation tactics which actually won the day

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        Don't think Holt did anything chivalrous because she is a woman, but if he did, it didn't matter. Like child trying to help adult

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
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        tip of the iceberg. Ask an experienced powerful woman to "read" her perf if you want to grok the 9/10 that is invisible to most men

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        you sound kinda theoretical tbf like you've never had a chance to observe how powerful women operate close up

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