B12 THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE SUNDAY • MARCH 15,2020 APATH FORWARD DISAPPOINTMENT AS PINKIE PROMISES GO UNFULFILLED BY STEVEN P. DINKIN When Warren announced her that gives context to her platform: withdrawal, it was clear that she making life better for all people. March 5 was a day of dashed felt the weight of disappointing In all the years I’ve voted for dreams for some. Solemn pinkie thousands of little girls, leaving president, I don’t recall any dis- promises were put on hold for the race to two men. She said with cussion of a male candidate’s another four years. emotion, “One of the hardest parts likability. Nor do I remember a It was two days after the Super of this is all those pinkie promis- male candidate being disparaged Tuesday contests: the day that es.” for his ambition. Elizabeth Warren, once a front- When asked the inevitable — Philosopher Kate Manne of runner, dropped out of the presi- whether gender played a part in Cornell University sees this behav- dential race. She often made her disappointing Super Tuesday ior as pervasive evidence of mi- pinkie promises with young girls showing — Warren called it a trap sogyny, which she describes as the at her events, saying, “I’m running question for every woman. “If you “law enforcement branch of patri- for president because that’s what say, ‘Yeah, there was sexism in this archy.” Manne says, “It is perhaps girls do.” race,’ everyone says, ‘Whiner!’” the mechanism at play when a Law professor Abby Wood Warren said. “If you say, ‘No, there woman puts herself forward as a tweeted a photo of her daughter was no sexism,’ about a bazillion presidential candidate and finds engaged in locked pinkies with women think, ‘What planet do you her attributes — her intelligence, candidate Warren at a campaign live on?’” her experience, her compassion — rally last fall. The caption read, As the father of a college-aged understood as threats.” “My daughter — who wore her daughter with a passion for social Intelligence, experience and fanciest cardigan for the occasion justice, I feel both disbelief and JORDAN GALE NYT compassion are qualities that our —told me, ‘Mama, I feel like I met disappointment reading Warren’s Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), speaking at a town hall event country desperately needs. For the areal president tonight. Like, a remarks. As a country, will we be at West Delaware High School in Manchester, Iowa, on Jan. 4. sake of my daughter and the little real one.’” ready to elect a woman to our girl in the cardigan, let’s pinkie Writing in the newsletter highest office in my daughter’s just as strident and shrill, but also tence admired? And why were promise that soon, women can run Think, Wood says, “(Warren) lifetime? as condescending.” She maintains some voters seemingly offended for president and win. wants us to believe that we’re Warren is intelligent, accom- that the accusation of condescen- when, on the campaign trail, War- Dinkin is president of the Na- living in a new era, an era where plished and compassionate — but sion is intertwined with Warren’s ren talked about her many accom- tional Conflict Resolution Center, there is usually more than one apparently, not likable enough. In gender. plishments? aSan Diego-based organization woman on debate stages and an article in The Atlantic titled Garber continues, “The harder It suggests a double standard: working to create innovative female candidates are common, “America Punished Elizabeth she works to prove to the public When it comes to singing your own solutions to challenging issues, not extraordinary. Warren is ask- Warren for Her Competence,” that she is worthy of power — the praises, it’s acceptable and ex- including intolerance and incivil- ing America’s girls, their parents Megan Garber writes, “Warren more evidence she offers of her pected from male candidates, but ity. NCRC is nationally recog- and really the whole country to had something about her, appar- competence — the more conde- reviled from female candidates. nized for its conflict management envision a national political cul- ently: something that galled the scending, allegedly, she becomes,” (We saw the same reaction to and communication strategies. To ture in which women are simply pundits and the public in a way calling into question Warren’s Hillary Clinton in 2016.) For War- learn about NCRC’s program- expected to run.” that led to assessments of her not likability. 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To day is Sunday, March 15, the In 1998, Dr. Benjamin Spock, to the task. Both attacks changed are shifting to online-only Bias against Asians and 75th day of 2020. There are whose child care guidance President George W. the country’s trajectory. classes, school districts are Asian Americans has been 291 days left in the year. spanned half a century, died in Bush immediately ad- The 9/11 attack put the closing, concerts have been reported and Asian markets San Diego at 94. dressed the nation following U.S. on the path of what has canceled and employees in San Diego and elsewhere Today’s highlight avisit to a Florida class- been described as “endless increasingly are tele- have experienced a sharp In 1999, an Amtrak train room to promote education wars” in Afghanistan and commuting. Toilet paper drop in business. Busi- in history slammed into a steel-filled reform. It was the first year the Middle East, with un- has become a prized com- nesses more broadly are On March 15, 1913, President truck at a crossing in Bour- of his presidency and Bush clear results at best, despite modity. now realizing a drop-off. Woodrow Wilson met with bonnais, Ill., killing 11 people. had just presided over a thousands of U.S. military Collegiate and profes- There’s another unfortu- about 100 reporters for the catastrophic intelligence and enemy combatant sional sporting tourna- nate, yet necessary, differ- In 2005, former WorldCom failure. But he soon gained deaths and the loss of an ments and seasons have ence in our behavior this first formal presidential press his balance, was clear about untold number of civilian been canceled or postponed time around. conference. chief Bernard Ebbers was convicted in New York of the threat and put the coun- lives. indefinitely, as have other Following 9/11, the nation On this date engineering the largest corpo- try on wartime footing, the Several years earlier, cultural events. The boom- became united, if only tem- rate fraud in U.S. history. (He manner and rationale of some politicians were talk- ing economy may go bust. porarily. We didn’t just rally In 44 B.C., Roman dictator which is disputed to this ing about how they planned There are some similar- around the flag and applaud was later sentenced to 25 day. to spend a “peace dividend” ities, good and bad, about folks for trying to support Julius Caesar was assassi- years in prison.) nated by a group of nobles Widespread fear of re- —the anticipated savings the reactions to the 9/11 and their fellow Americans, we that included Brutus and peated, large-scale terrorist on reduced military spend- coronavirus attacks. In both had a yearning to become Today’s birthdays attacks went unrealized, in ing after the Cold War cases, all sorts of precau- closer to people we know Cassius.