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Politics : The Heavily HEAVILY moderated Kamala Harris thread

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From: S. maltophilia7/24/2024 10:54:19 PM
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Kamala Harris and the Threat of a Woman’s Laugh
Criticism of emotional expression has long been a weapon of choice for those wanting to cut down women in political power.

........Part of what makes the attacks on Harris’s laugh seem so bizarre is that her laugh is both genuine and contagious—a sign of a woman expressing joy without neurosis or self-consciousness or repression. Laughter has a social function that binds people together and signals connection; we are 30 times more likely to laugh out loud in groups than we are alone. These acts of recognizable nonlinguistic communication are a key part of what makes us human. “Let me just tell you something: I have my mother’s laugh,” Harris told Drew Barrymore earlier this year. “And I grew up around a bunch of women in particular who laughed from the belly. They laughed. They would.....

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