It’s really not news if its just a rerun with no new message to the movement, I don’t blame them. It’s not seeking sensationalism so much as a bare reason to cover. If bickering over a cap symbol can swamp any larger message that might have been there, not a good sign
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"bickering over the cap" is a narrative I have *only* seen in the formerly esteemed paper that harped on it. there is actual news if they sought it - 15,000 women candidates, voter registration drives, candidates running in seats DNC usually ignores, ... (1/2)
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... training programs for everything from door knocking and phone banking to being a citizen witness to ICE raids. The problem is not lack of activity on the ground, but the kind of angle these guys (I use the word advisedly) want to find.
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Witness the contrast between the breathless coverage of the tea party movement (even the loony fringe) vs. the way they're covering this resistance. I wonder what the difference might be. </sarcasm>
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I think the narrative here is fundamentally weaker. There is a central character (“woman”) and an energy (which shows up as takedowns of specific men, like Weinstein, or institutions), but no overall plot. The Tea Party had a story (constitutional originalism initially).
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Tell me why you think "constitutional originalism" is a plot, but women's rights is not.
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And note, to take the NYT as an example, there’s been endless op-eds, exposes, coverage. The only thing missing has been a grand narrative. Without that, there’s no way to trace diff between the 2017 and 2018 other than stats of number of women running, number of men taken down
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In the absence of a natural story, the only thing people can do is keep some sort of score. Men taken down, seats won in Congress under a banner.
#Occupy had the same problem. It’s why “movements” on the Left generally gain less traction than on the Right. Cf. Lakoff model1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Modern Conservatism has little to do with what Lakoff was trying to explain. The problem here is simple: "Equal rights for women" isn't a "natural story" for so many. (Making my own reproductive decisions and getting equal pay for equal work seem pretty natural to me).
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It would work if it were about an ethnic minority confined to a lower economic class. A story that’s about half the species, and one that spans all the classes, has to be bigger. “The patriarchy” is a story that, whether you like it or not, is at the right scale.
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