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In a remarkable and revealing experiment about the impact of gender in the 2016 election, two self-described "liberal" professors joined forces to put on an "ethnodrama" based on key moments of the presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, in which actors of the opposite sex played the roles of the two candidates, exactly mimicking their every move and intonation. The results of the gender swapping experiment stunned both professors and the mostly liberal audiences who attended the performances.
... Many in the audience were "shocked" to find the male version of Hillary to actually be harder to admire than the real Hillary, while the female Trump seemed to "shine" in moments they'd remembered the real Trump "flailing or lashing out." The overall experience for many Hillary voters was both "bewildering and instructive."
This is very instructive if you allow yourself the latitude to put aside your biases.
When they opened up their minds and put aside their preconceived notions and just reacted to what was presented... the female "Trump" won the debate.
It also tells us that these people (and some on the right do it as well) suppress what is rational to vote for their guy or gal. These are Hilary supporters who were shocked that they preferred Trump when they actually opened up their mind.
It is not a male/female issue. It's about the content of the candidate.
I wonder if those, who were confused and bewildered, truly understood what actually happened, and got a greater understanding of themselves...
Funny how that worked. I'm not sure how much of the actual candidates favorability was male versus female as much as positive press spin versus negative press spin. But the bottom line is what people keep saying, which is Hillary didn't lose because she's a woman, Hillary lost because she's Hillary.
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Hillary was a horrible candidate, the DNC should never have rigged it in her favor - but why not when so many Democrats fall right into line even after it was exposed?!
fter watching the second televised debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in October 2016—a battle between the first female candidate nominated by a major party and an opponent who’d just been caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women—Maria Guadalupe, an associate professor of economics and political science at INSEAD, had an idea. Millions had tuned in to watch a man face off against a woman for the first set of co-ed presidential debates in American history. But how would their perceptions change, she wondered, if the genders of the candidates were switched? She pictured an actress playing Trump, replicating his words, gestures, body language, and tone verbatim, while an actor took on Clinton’s role in the same way. What would the experiment reveal about male and female communication styles, and the differing standards by which we unconsciously judge them?
This is an amazing article and please read all of it.
This reminds me of the story I've read or heard many times about that Kennedy-Nixon debate, I believe the first televised debate. People listening on radio thought Nixon won but TV viewers gave it to Kennedy, the handsome, smooth, non-sweating candidate.
This is an amazing article and please read all of it.
The late Belle Barth could have played Trump's female counterpart (and who else could have done it?). She was a pioneer in promoting people's uncivil rights. When I was very young, half the bad words I and my friends knew and most of what we could imagine about obscene behavior, came from listening to her records. Woe unto us, if our parents had known about that!
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Trump & Hillary Clinton gender swapped by NYU professors. Are surprised by results.
