At the Pence/Harris debate on Wednesday night, Pence reminded me of a plastic Ken doll, an obsequious robot. Kamala, by contrast, was a fireball real woman.
As he droned on and on and tried interrupting Kamala at every turn, he must have quivered inside at how far over his head he was.
She didn't scream, didn't cry, and didn't call him a single name. She just gave him The Look and said with absolute authority, "I'm speaking. I'm speaking."
After the debate, the three commentators I was watching (MSNBC's Joy, Nicole, and Rachel) all noted and applauded Kamala's refusal to back down and be silenced by the man with the fly on his head. Women get it. We get it viscerally. We remember times we've been patronized, misinterpreted, and verbally bullied by a certain kind of man.
This was rolling around in my mind this morning when Nellie sent me this wonderful page from her sketchbook.
"Before the cage" women were birds, free-flying, lighting up the sky with the incandescent streaks of their wings.
When this nightmare is over, women's refusal to be silenced will have played a huge part in saving our Democracy. The spokes of cages will shatter from sea to shining sea.
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