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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

how do you make a name for yourself as the "plans person"? Like, there is no specific plan she's publicly associated with, just "plans" in general.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's just a bourgeois feminist trap. The idea is that she's a smart qualified technocrat. Don't you dare criticize her.

Petition to restart the white women struggle session.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Leslie Knope was supposed to be the parody of this trope, before they forgot what they were writing and just started playing it straight.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah that show decided "all our characters are to be loveable and kind of real" after like 1 season.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

That's every Americam sitcom ever. Even when they try to not do that, they can't help themselves

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

If you are unssusspecting it jusst meanss her sschemess have already enccircled you warren-snake

[–] axont@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure it was a tactic in response to rhetoric from the Clinton campaign in 2016. The whole "Bernie says everyone gets a pony" thing, where Clinton positioned progressive policies as unrealistic and without plans. So Warren is an insufferable nerd and tried to sidestep being called unrealistic, becoming the plans person.

Warren's PR team was very weird