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8th March 2017, 23:22
Audiences got a chance to test their gender biases recently with surprising results.
A play called Her Opponent was performed at the Provincetown Playhouse in the West Village in New York City.
Created by Maria Guadalupe, associate professor of economics and political science at INSEAD, and Joe Salvatore, associate professor of educational theater at NYU’s Steinhart School, the play consisted of verbatim excerpts from the three presidential debates but with the candidates' genders reversed.
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When interviewed after the play, many audience members said the arguments from Trump’s character sounded more convincing coming from a woman. “About halfway through watching this it hit me – I see how he (Trump) won,” said one audience member.
"...was the real Trump’s rhetoric offensive to liberals because it was delivered by a repugnant reality TV star? 'When a woman says it, it doesn’t sound as crazy,' said Maria Guadalupe."
Many in the audience also agreed that many arguments from the Clinton character seemed less believable and said that the character came off as “untrustworthy” or “fake.”
“I expected to feel validated in my beliefs,” a left-leaning member of the audience noted. “But I thought Gordon was weak. I found myself expecting him, as a man, to attack more.”
"As a man, Clinton seemed like a cliched and sleazy politician, overly polished, making grand promises. Her constant smiling felt more forced when a man did it, since it’s rare for men to fake smiles. When Embry read out Clinton’s website address and book information, mid-debate, he seemed overwhelmingly smug. Hearing someone else read Trump’s lines made it easier to focus on the content of what he was saying. Perhaps for the first time, I heard the clear messages: 'more jobs' and 'lower taxes', criticisms of Clinton’s lack of action."
Female Trump felt like a feisty woman speaking from the heart. Perhaps that was because society expects women to be more dramatic and emotional.
Maria Guadalupe commented, “It gave people enough distance to reflect on their own deeply ingrained gender bias, and to think about how they might have better understood the debates and the other perspective if they had not held such strong preference or distaste for a specific candidate."
In a time when so many people believe they are so sophisticated, non-judgmental, inclusive, non-bias, and gender-neutral -- it's good to see the arts holding up a mirror for reflection so people can sense what is really going on with them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/clinton-trump-gender-swap-play-her-opponent
A play called Her Opponent was performed at the Provincetown Playhouse in the West Village in New York City.
Created by Maria Guadalupe, associate professor of economics and political science at INSEAD, and Joe Salvatore, associate professor of educational theater at NYU’s Steinhart School, the play consisted of verbatim excerpts from the three presidential debates but with the candidates' genders reversed.
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When interviewed after the play, many audience members said the arguments from Trump’s character sounded more convincing coming from a woman. “About halfway through watching this it hit me – I see how he (Trump) won,” said one audience member.
"...was the real Trump’s rhetoric offensive to liberals because it was delivered by a repugnant reality TV star? 'When a woman says it, it doesn’t sound as crazy,' said Maria Guadalupe."
Many in the audience also agreed that many arguments from the Clinton character seemed less believable and said that the character came off as “untrustworthy” or “fake.”
“I expected to feel validated in my beliefs,” a left-leaning member of the audience noted. “But I thought Gordon was weak. I found myself expecting him, as a man, to attack more.”
"As a man, Clinton seemed like a cliched and sleazy politician, overly polished, making grand promises. Her constant smiling felt more forced when a man did it, since it’s rare for men to fake smiles. When Embry read out Clinton’s website address and book information, mid-debate, he seemed overwhelmingly smug. Hearing someone else read Trump’s lines made it easier to focus on the content of what he was saying. Perhaps for the first time, I heard the clear messages: 'more jobs' and 'lower taxes', criticisms of Clinton’s lack of action."
Female Trump felt like a feisty woman speaking from the heart. Perhaps that was because society expects women to be more dramatic and emotional.
Maria Guadalupe commented, “It gave people enough distance to reflect on their own deeply ingrained gender bias, and to think about how they might have better understood the debates and the other perspective if they had not held such strong preference or distaste for a specific candidate."
In a time when so many people believe they are so sophisticated, non-judgmental, inclusive, non-bias, and gender-neutral -- it's good to see the arts holding up a mirror for reflection so people can sense what is really going on with them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/clinton-trump-gender-swap-play-her-opponent