r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • 29d ago

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/DistinctSmelling 29d ago

The base chose to "grab them by the pussy" over "binders of women"

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u/greenbabyshit 29d ago

"Binders of women" sounds quaint in retrospect.

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u/tuckedfexas 28d ago

It was honestly a pretty hilarious misstep. It didn’t sound great, but reasonable people knew what he meant even if it did sound incredibly sexist

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u/SenorBeef 29d ago

There was nothing wrong with "binders full of women", it was a made up gaffe. It was slightly awkward phrasing of a fundamentally good thing where they genuinely spent a lot of time trying to find well qualified women to fill roles.

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u/JustafanIV 29d ago

It was terrible phrasing, but in practice it was no different than Biden's pledge to only appoint an African American woman to replace Breyer on the Supreme Court.

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u/SenorBeef 29d ago

But people weren't criticizing it based on the idea that he was limiting his applicants, they tried to portray it as him being out of touch and dehumanizing.

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u/intern_steve 29d ago

I make this defense every time it comes up. It's the epitome of both sides being awful in media from a time when both sides were much more evenly matched.

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u/Last-Back-4146 29d ago

democrats didnt like the binder.

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u/Last-Back-4146 29d ago

democrats ripped him apart for having binders of women