Chapo Trap House - 385 Preview - D'Artagnan!

Episode Date: January 17, 2020

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Dana Lossia, a 29-year-old labor lawyer in Brooklyn, describes herself as a pretty big Obama supporter. She worked for a year at Michelle Obama's Public Ally Chicago, where she met Barack a few times. She called him the most inspiring, amazing person, a different kind of politician. Of Hillary Clinton, whom Lossia supported in her Senate runs, she says, I just think she acted badly during this campaign. And yet, as Lossia wrote in a recent email, I've been really bothered by what I perceive

as sexism among some male Obama supporters, and have spent hours defending Clinton. A lot of guys just can't stand Hillary, and it's the intensity of their irritation with her that disturbs me more than their devotion to Obama. This riveting Democratic primary campaign has provided us with its own stock characters. There are the young daily show watching Obama maniacs. And now you just fill in the chat box for the daily show, it's so funny. Obama maniacs getting over their irony addiction by falling earnestly in love with the senator from Illinois.

There are the pissed-off, second-wave feminists, uptight and out-of-touch howling as their dream of seeing a woman in the Oval Office fades. And then there are the young women caught between them. According to the media script, these cool young customers have embodied their elder's worst nightmare of a generation that takes feminism's victories for granted by throwing Hillary Clinton over for her challenger faster than you can say, I've got a crush on Obama. These young women are way over feminism, we're told, and perceive gender bias to be an antiquated notion.

They are embarrassed and annoyed by the public entreaties of war horses like Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan. Pressure from their forebears only serves to alienate them from the second wave and drive them further into the disheveled embrace of yes we can, the yes we can, dude down the block. Dude down the block? Dude down the block. Dude down the block.

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Dude's rock. Seriously. Dude's rock. Dude's rock. But genuinely, the sympathy resides with Warren because women have all been in situations where they're running for president, and the man who's also running for president expresses at least some hesitation about being, not even a hesitation, but just saying that you should be aware that Trump is going to use every sexist trick in the book against you,

so be prepared for that, and felt the microaggression that that is, right? It's fucked up. Yeah. It's ticked up. It's terrifying just to see how many people are have been totally conditioned to view politics through this petty lens of like, like it needs, politics exists to reflect and validate my personal experiences, like at work or whatever, like, oh, I'm going to vote for this person, and that's really going to own the guy at my office who like

talking out Steve with the coffee breath or whatever. It's like just this horrifyingly small, bore mindset, considering the fucking position we find ourselves in, you're all just doing like fucking Versailles, what do you call it? Like, you know, with the hats, the big, the big hair, don't he's the brains of the show folks. You're just doing, you're doing dinner table petty foggery waiting for guffman when he starts to it's like in France, when you know they they it's like they smack you with a

glove and be like, D'Artagnan, D'Artagnan, slap them. That's exactly what I'm talking about, but you guys eating small cakes, doing cutting remarks to each other. That's that's all this is just blown up and we all have to do is pretend that we give a shit about it. Because we've drained politics of any meaning.