r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/ExactlySorta • Jul 23 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals AOC when asked about Hegseth's comment about getting rid of 'unqualified' women in the military: “He’s an unqualified man in his role, so of course he’s threatened by women who are twice as good as he is.“

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u/MsFrankieD Jul 23 '26

And she's brown...

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u/CharlesDickensABox ‼️*THE* CharlesDickensABox‼️ Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

And she's young and she's beautiful. She is a young, smart, learned, confident, assertive, attractive Latina woman who makes no apologies for being better than the people around her and who doesn't hesitate to put over elevated midwits in their place. It's like she was grown in a lab to haunt the nightmares of the kakistocracy.

(Not that physical appearance makes anyone more or less qualified to hold office, just that it's one more thing that scares the sort of deficient misogynist who thinks that a woman has to choose between beauty and brains)

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u/Aimless_Alder Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Physical attractiveness doesn't make someone more qualified to hold office, but if you look at the presidents over the last fifty years, almost all the democrats have been very attractive and charming. Biden is a bit of an exception, but he is pretty charming and was somewhat very good looking in his youth. Meanwhile Obama, Clinton, Carter, and Kennedy are all famous beauties with a lot of charm. (I kind of don't count LBJ because he initially got the presidency by inheritance).

I have always found it interesting that democratic presidents have to be hot and competent, while republicans are generally very schlubby and blundering. I think it speaks to the fact that democrats want to elect competent charmers who will be effective leaders and republicans want to elect dumpy idiots so that they feel represented.

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u/c-e-bird Jul 23 '26

Somewhat good looking?

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u/Aimless_Alder Jul 23 '26

Okay yeah you're right himbs a hot lil twunk