We have officially reached that late period in a presidential campaign where the thoroughly leftist national newspapers turn into partisan rags that coo and gush, this time over Vice President Kamala Harris. Consider the July 31 “Style” section of The Washington Post.
It began with a large color photograph of a Harris impersonator on TikTok named Alison Reese. The headline was “On Harris’s laugh, a symphony of feedback.” A caption under Reese and her rainbow flag said Reese “says Harris’s laugh ‘feels more uninhibited. … The laugh is truly coming from this place of inner joy.’”
Post writers Maura Judkis and Kara Voght claimed Harris’ “ebullient laugh” has “the same tempo as some truly excellent dance songs.” They assembled academic experts — including Kate Manne, who wrote a whole book about Hillary Clinton’s laugh being exploited in 2016 — to find misogyny in mocking Kamala’s cackle.
“It’s been taboo for women to speak too loud, to laugh too loud, to laugh too much,” proclaimed Kathleen Karlyn, a scholar of cinema and media studies. “It’s predictable that, when Kamala laughs, she’s asserting her power and her refusal to be silent or play by these old rules about proper femininity.”
Karlyn wrote a book titled “The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter.”
Citing Harris’ viral comment about falling out of a coconut tree, the Post scribes are declaring victory in the Laugh Wars: “Conservatives seem to have lost control of the ‘Laughing Kamala’ narrative that they tried to create. What they put forth as cringeworthy has been alchemized into coconutmentum.” […]
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