The recent disparaging remarks by Donald Trump against Kamala Harris have once again spotlighted the rampant sexism entrenched in politics
The Republican presidential nominee Donal Trump’s recent disparaging comments against her Democratic rival, Vice President Harris about her ‘appearance’, re-established the fact that ‘sexism is very much alive in American politics’. His party, however, had denied that ‘it had anything to do with race or gender’. Harris, on the other hand, urged Trump to commit to debating her, ‘if he got something to say’. Such sexist vilification, many believe, is on the expected lines in a country that had no women, and only one person of colour as president, which is now, for the first time, having a woman of colour running for the presidency on a major party ticket. Harris’ entry into the presidential battle has unleashed a wave of misogyny, and personal attacks on her marriage and stepchildren. She is also accused of leaning into ‘being Black for political expediency’. Republican vice-presidential nominee Cyrus Vance’s remarks that the Democratic Party is dominated by ‘childless cat ladies’, with no ‘direct stake’ in America’s future, is also a dig at Harris’s life choices.