Consider these variances:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWhy don’t you smile more, darling?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your smile looks fake…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why do you talk SO loudly, ma\u2019am<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe you should speak less…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You rarely laugh at my jokes, babe<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find your giggles\/laughs annoying…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
To my fellow men, especially those with an affinity for Donald Trump and his ilk, do know that your inner \u201cMister\u201d and \u201cHarpo<\/em>\u201d from the The Color Purple<\/em> and \u201cIke<\/em>\u201d from What’s Love Got to Do With It is showing every time you cheer on, laugh, or extend financial support to his campaign and PAC\u2019s! For those men (and some women) so enamored, I sincerely wonder how you were raised; what was your situation like with your momma and grandma with regards to your daddy and grandpa in the home? I don’t expect many of you to respond to this query online, but you can always shoot me a private email and I assure you, I will exercise all discretion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In full transparency, I grew up a “Momma’s Boy” and with three older sisters, which is part of the reason why some of my male friends in college jokingly called me “Oprah Winfrey” because of my penchant for spending hours talking to close female friends; for those who only know me from the cyber world, trust me when I tell you that I’ve been around \u201cgirl talk\u201d or \u201cwomen’s talk\u201d for the entirety of my years and while I don’t know everything that goes on in the hearts and minds of most women, I know quite a bit! In fact, if I know nothing else, I know that women cannot STAND to be told how they should look, how they should dress, how they should talk, or how they should LAUGH by anyone\u2014but especially not by ANY man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, as a relatively secure man, I think that it\u2019s important to address the slights that the clearly insecure 78 year old toddler, Donald Trump, is making on the campaign trail about his new Democratic presidential opponent Kamala Harris’s\u2014LAUGH! Just last night, Trump went on and on and on again not about public policy, but about the vice president\u2019s laugh, concluding: “You can tell a lot<\/strong> by a laugh. I call her \u2018Laughing Kamala.\u2019 You ever watch her laugh? She\u2019s crazy. She\u2019s nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, we can tell a lot about a laugh, such as the good natured aspect of person(s) who can find joy and levity from comments, jokes, and even during some of the toughest moments of our daily existences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can also tell a lot about those who laugh at matters that aren’t hardly funny, such as the sexist, racist, homophobic, and religiously biased \u201cjokes\u201d that are a regular feature under the Republican “Big Tent” whenever the orange hued clown in chief \ud83e\udd21 is attacking people that he (and his followers) can’t stand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through the years, those “jokes” that elicited MAGA laughs have included stereotypical tropes about Black and Brown people, Muslims, immigrants, and the physically handicapped, with one of the ugliest moments that ended in uproarious laughs and applause coming in 2016 when Trump mocked a physically disabled reporter mercilessly on the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But like many insecure men, Trump’s most disgusting comedic material has ALWAYS been reserved for women, whether it was bragging about \u201cgrabbing them by the p-word \ud83d\ude3a,\u201dkissing them without permission because he is \u201ca celebrity;\u201d \u201cjoking\u201d that his own daughter, Ivanka, was “hot” and a “piece of ass” on Howard Stern’s show, or making vile comments about menstruation with reference to journalist Megyn Kelly, Trump makes the mean jokes\u2014and his mindless minions egg him on to new lows by laughing it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And while Trump has been known to come up with childish nicknames for all of his public opponents, his opprobrium is overly offensive for women, like prosecutors Letitia James, Fani Willis, and now, Kamala Harris, who he has called “animals,” “rabid,” “nasty,” and “garbage” to the applause and laughter of his foolish followers who either don’t know and don’t care\u2014or know better and still don’t care about how disgustingly sexist (and racist) such comments are in the public square. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such is why Trump’s jokes about the way that Kamala Harris laughs are yet the latest reminder that the \u201cman-child\u201d has no gentility, and has not a single shred of decency in his limited mind and vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And while Trump may laugh at Vice President Harris’s laugh today, as a former prosecutor myself, I can’t wait for my turn to laugh when Harris, also a former prosecutor, runs rhetorical circles around his subject\/predicate bereft behind on those debate stages come September and October\u2014if he even musters the courage to show up when summoned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But because we live in a time in which MAGA minions just LOVE to play dumb by asking non-MAGA’s “why is that racist” and “why is that sexist,” I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that historically speaking, women in general\u2014and Black women specifically\u2014have been abused, marginalized, and often suffered irreparable harm by people in positions of authority in America who deign condescend about their looks, their lifestyles and lovers, and yes, their laughs; again, such condescensions have NO place in the modern public square!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I conclude by saying to all of the women who subscribe or read my writings, please keep on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smiling if you want to\u2014or not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dress in what makes you comfortable\u2014and ignore the petty (and puerile) critics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speak loudly, speak softly, or don’t speak at all\u2014it’s your prerogative!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laugh, laugh heartily, and laugh some more if the spirit moves you\u2014and spread your joy knowing that like the old Virginia Slims cigarette ads used to say, “You’ve come a long way, Baby”<\/strong><\/em>\u2014and we, the decent people of this nation, aren’t gonna let no man\u2014or no MAGAs\u2014return us to the days when women were seen but seldom heard in the public square!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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