In my essay, the reason I focused on the media elites and pundits who back Platner with this kind of rhetoric is that it *matters*; why is Platner attracting so many people who talk ever more brazenly like this while claiming left-wing ideas?
For the antifeminist leftist, the HR Lady symbolizes the empty triumph of managerial liberalism and girlboss feminism, to be vanquished by a pair of sapient Carhartts.
Graham Platner is a dilettante adventurer reaping the benefits of both a privileged upbringing and his (unearned) image as an average working class man.
I wrote about how these converge to grant him impunity
www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...
Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
