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All Politics Is Gender Politics
We talk about masculinity and politics constantly right now, but gender politics runs both ways—and it’s usually invisible when it comes to men. Danielle Kurtzleben, White House correspondent at NPR, and Meredith Conroy, political science professor and author of the Gender Gap Substack, join the show to unpack how loaded terms like “authenticity” are actually coded by gender. We discuss why working-class masculinity became the template for authenticity in the Graham Platner era, why that same template essentially excludes women candidates, why men like Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani are…
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