They're outraged, and women politicians aren't afraid to show it
By Victoria McGrane GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 03, 2018
Elizabeth Warren won’t be the first woman to take a shot at shattering that highest glass ceiling if she decides to run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. But she might be the first woman who kicked off her presidential inquiry by acknowledging how incensed she is.
“I’m angry, and I own it,” Warren declared at her Holyoke town hall, where she revealed she would take “a hard look” at running for president after the midterm elections on Nov. 6.
But Warren is by no means alone in voicing fury. This year, women politicians are showing their anger in ways that depart starkly from the well-worn rules that said they could not show their emotion lest they seem unbalanced, hysterical, threatening, or otherwise veer from societal expectations for the proper way women should behave.
“The rules are changing dramatically and very, very quickly,” said Jess McIntosh, a national Democratic strategist. “We are already seeing ‘this kind of woman can’t win, this kind of campaign can’t win’ isn’t the case anymore.”
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