In a remarkable and revealing experiment about the impact of gender in the 2016 election, two self-described “liberal” professors joined forces to put on an “ethnodrama” based on key moments of the presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, in which actors of the opposite sex played the roles of the two candidates, exactly mimicking their every move and intonation. The results of the gender swapping experiment stunned both professors and the mostly liberal audiences who attended the performances.
NYU reports that while both professors say they “began the project assuming that the gender inversion would confirm what they’d each suspected watching the real-life debates: that Trump’s aggression—his tendency to interrupt and attack—would never be tolerated in a woman, and that Clinton’s competence and preparedness would seem even more convincing coming from a man,” the result of the gender reversal was almost exactly the opposite.
Many in the audience were “shocked” to find the male version of Hillary to actually be harder to admire than the real Hillary, while the female Trump seemed to “shine” in moments they’d remembered the real Trump “flailing or lashing out.” The overall experience for many Hillary voters was both “bewildering and instructive.”
We heard a lot of “now I understand how this happened”—meaning how Trump won the election. People got upset. There was a guy two rows in front of me who was literally holding his head in his hands, and the person with him was rubbing his back. The simplicity of Trump’s message became easier for people to hear when it was coming from a woman—that was a theme. One person said, “I’m just so struck by how precise Trump’s technique is.” Another—a musical theater composer, actually—said that Trump created “hummable lyrics,” while Clinton talked a lot, and everything she was was true and factual, but there was no “hook” to it. Another theme was about not liking either candidate—you know, “I wouldn’t vote for either one.” Someone said that Jonathan Gordon [the male Hillary Clinton] was “really punchable” because of all the smiling. And a lot of people were just very surprised by the way it upended their expectations about what they thought they would feel or experience. There was someone who described Brenda King [the female Donald Trump] as his Jewish aunt who would take care of him, even though he might not like his aunt. Someone else described her as the middle school principal who you don’t like, but you know is doing good things for you.
Fuck the left
Trump is president
“Evrtything she (Hillary) said was true and factual”…. these people only partially get why she tanked so bad….
“began the project assuming that the gender inversion would confirm what they’d each suspected” A proper conclusion can never be reached when it is based on a false premise. It’s the same with global warming, gender fluid, white privilege, and any other brain-fart idea those people come up with.
This story is so good it actually is worth posting two days in a row like this.
Still happy my version was not published in the Bullpen, though. We don’t need a third one from the peanut gallery.
I think it should be talked about a LOT from here on.
This story needs to become common knowledge.
How can this be possible when all the academics tell
us there’s no actual difference between men and women?
See? Men just suck. Because they’re men.
She had Trump down pat, I like her. 🙂
A generation of being trained to hate white guys and assume woman are better has just been blown out of the water. The fact that stupid liberals didn’t know this going into it is just icing on the cake. The totally false narrative of their styles never fooled Trmp supporters. MAGA
Even as a cute, cuddly DOG, Hillary would still come off as a douche!
Still astonished at the false image of Clinton these people have embraced.
What and where is this “competence” they keep praising?
Granted, all they know of her is through MSNBC and ThinkProgress, and they are political neophytes who’ve never heard of Arkancide, or NAFTA, or impeachments.
But wow. They are literally seeing a different person on stage than I am.
As Scott Adams says, “two different movies”.