Warren. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP/Shutterstock The end of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign fills me with a special, stinging grief, a grief born of more than the loss of my preferred candidate, more than my recognition of the obvious misogyny that blocked her rise. No, my sorrow — and that of countless of my women colleagues — feels acutely personal, for, like Warren, I am a schoolmarm.
Self-styled intellectuals use it — like George Will. Though a conservative, Will is a man of letters, someone who should be able to appreciate Warren’s intellect. But no: Warren’s “persona is that of a hectoring schoolmarm …grating,” Will wrote in the Washington Post, relying lazily on this term and its hackneyed accompanying verb, “hectoring.”
But special problems start when women step out of the still-feminized realm of teaching children and start sharing their expertise with adults — in universities or in the wider public. To call an educated woman with powerful opinions a “schoolmarm” implies that her remarks are suitable only for children, devoid of interest for grown-ups. To use the term is to say, “Since I am not a child, I need not grant you my attention.
Because the archetype of the learned man looms large in our cultural imagination as an authority figure deserving of respect. But a learned woman remains an aberration, an unnatural creature to be diminished and implicitly sent back to the appropriate realm for women: the care and education of children. And with its connotation of prudish virginity, “schoolmarm” reminds us that women are still defined by their relationship to men.
rkgar I skimmed. George Will is a soulless tool and a white supremacist, and part of that is patriarchy. He will diminish anyone not swm. He doesn’t count. ewarren is a victim of those deep seeded biases. Best candidate. And fwiw, I like her. And trust her.
rkgar 'Lightning'
rkgar She was mistreated
rkgar If any of those things were true shed already be president 🤣🤥🤡
rkgar ewarren is a gift to this country and no doubt will be an influence for years to come. Thank you Elizabeth for being such a force and inspiration.
rkgar Lightning, but maybe her wit was lightening, too.
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