{"id":69754,"date":"2019-01-21T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69754"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:05:44","slug":"somewhere-bobby-riggs-is-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69754","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere, Bobby Riggs Is Smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only one that figures that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/01\/18\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-setting-women-back-light-years-politics\/\">Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is setting back feminism half a decade or more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; color: #000000; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">In mere minutes, Ocasio-Cortez managed to affirm nearly every negative stereotype about the female sex, from the trope that we\u2019re no good at math to the notion that you shouldn\u2019t trust us with a credit card. If all you saw was her example, you\u2019d think we\u2019re all just emotional dreamers who need to be reined in by reality<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; color: #000000; caret-color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Ocasio-Cortez is not the feminist hero most media coverage has made her out to be. If anything, her time in the spotlight has set women in politics back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>Not just women.  I have a hunch after a few years of her (and Reps. Omar and Tlaib), millennials outside the safest of coastal loonie bins are going to have a harder sell to get into office as well.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only one that figures that\u00a0Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is setting back feminism half a decade or more: In mere minutes, Ocasio-Cortez managed to affirm nearly every negative stereotype about the female sex, from the trope that we\u2019re no good at math to the notion that you shouldn\u2019t trust us with a credit card. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,27,51],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-69754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-men-and-women","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-tide-pod-evita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69759,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69754\/revisions\/69759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}