Even though it's beyond debate at this point that women have for generations been excluded, mistreated, and held to impossible double-standards, that is not an excuse to abuse your employees. We would be making the exact same criticisms of Greg Abbott if he reacted the same way to a question about how he plans to reach the 42% of Texans who chose Kamala Harris.
After the Channel 5 interview it's pretty hard to get the impression that he's a thoughtless buffoon. He is well-educated and even used to be a lawyer. Just because he struggled with multiple addictions and his professional and personal lives spiraled out of control doesn't mean he's forever incapable of being an intelligent, respectable human being. When he's sober, I gotta say he's pretty sharp. If he can stay sober, and if he get his shit together professionally, he can do a lot of good with the money it looks like he's gonna win.
I saw a few gender studies and underwater basket weavers to balance it out, to be fair. This seems like an attempt to pacify the faculty, students, and alumni as well as a way to pretend the decision to bend the knee wasn't preordained when they announce that they'll bend the knee. Nobody smart will buy it.
Hard to get a read on most of these profs.
https://www.steventcollis.com/books
https://scholars.org/scholar/zachary-elkins
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/mdr93
This "civic leadership" program has two guys on this, what's that about?
https://civicleadership.utexas.edu/about/
https://civicleadership.utexas.edu/people/david-leal/
https://news.utexas.edu/2024/08/19/school-of-civic-leadership-accepting-applications-for-inaugural-class/
I think she's also stung by the fact that the electorate has pretty emphatically said it fucking hates condescending, educated women. The worst thing you can do is emulate or even remind people of Hillary Clinton's aesthetic, approach to politics, or platform. That is why Katie Porter shouldn't even make the CCG.
In fairness to Porter, that was a stupid question. She should have known better than to melt down like that, of course, but the correct answer to the question (how will you get the 40 percent of Californians who voted for Trump) is by reminding the interviewer that Trump has been losing support especially among Gen Z and Latinos, so if the election were to be held today she would not be competing for just 60 percent of the vote and then pivot from there to one of the talking points about the gubernatorial race.
They do this for the same reason people sell gold on Fox News: the common knowledge that a reliable and surprisingly large group of gullible people (marks) will give money to a faceless crew of predatory, unaccountable thieves (con artists) and there's no recourse available to the victims. That faceless crew is probably exactly the same people who ran this con the last time, and they will achieve exactly the same result.
Aziz was cancelled over a bad date. He probably needs the money. It's not a decision I would make, but if you're on the wrong side of your prime, I understand being a sellout. It's either that or doing nightly shows in Vegas for a fraction of the money.