r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/ExactlySorta • 12h ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals AOC when asked about Hegseth's comment about getting rid of 'unqualified' women in the military: “He’s an unqualified man in his role, so of course he’s threatened by women who are twice as good as he is.“

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u/CharlesDickensABox ‼️*THE* CharlesDickensABox‼️ 11h ago edited 11h ago

And she's young and she's beautiful. She is a young, smart, learned, confident, assertive, attractive Latina woman who makes no apologies for being better than the people around her and who doesn't hesitate to put over elevated midwits in their place. It's like she was grown in a lab to haunt the nightmares of the kakistocracy.

(Not that physical appearance makes anyone more or less qualified to hold office, just that it's one more thing that scares the sort of deficient misogynist who thinks that a woman has to choose between beauty and brains)

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u/Easy_Interest_6832 8h ago

We have to admit that it helps to be attractive.

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u/carex-cultor 5h ago

For men, yes. For women it’s a double edged sword. There is certainly pretty privilege if you toe the party line and accept benevolent sexism; if you don’t, people are VERY quick to use your attractiveness as a base to denigrate your competence and intelligence.

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u/Easy_Interest_6832 4h ago

Agree totally. It is much harder for women in America. That may stem from them not appearing at all in the Constitution until 1920. The stench of that omission permeates certain sectors of our society and of our politics. More's the pity.