Ella Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s Stepdaughter, Wore a DNC Outfit that Triggered Conservatives’ Brain Worms

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Ella Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s Stepdaughter, Wore a DNC Outfit that Triggered Conservatives’ Brain Worms

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There are plenty of legitimate reasons why some voters might be ********* a narrow gaze at the pomp and circumstance of this year’s Democratic National Convention, not the least of which is

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that brought out

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on the first day of the DNC. (Check out our gallery featuring

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.)

A not-great reason to be annoying about the DNC: gender policing. But, as usual,

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. After Ella Emhoff, the 25-year-old stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris and the daughter of her husband, Doug Emhoff, wore a

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and the Chappell Roan merch rip-off

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to the

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, seemingly brain worm-infested right-wingers like

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were gagged. (Sorry to make fun of your

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, Jr.)

“Ella Emhoff being a part of the first family has the potential to radicalize ********* parents,” Hanania

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. “I’m for women living the lives they want, but this is pretty much the nightmare scenario for most people with a daughter.”

Back to good-versus-bad reasons: It could be appropriate to wonder why Ella rocked the aesthetic of countless butches, myself included, on the first night of the DNC. (Cue the jokes that Ella looked like she queens out over a

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or that,

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, she was giving, “

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”). It would not, however, be appropriate at all to

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or call her the ***** of parents nationwide for violating a very strict concept of what gender-marginalized people are “allowed” to look like in public.

It harkens back to the measly, snide remarks about

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, and Ella then felt compelled to defend Harris. Meanwhile,

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about Ella visibly demonstrating a positive relationship with her dad, which, weird way to bring up your daddy issues, but I guess everybody needs an entry point to talk about the tough stuff.

Sitting here and lamenting that

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isn’t doing womanhood to your liking isn’t just bizarre and tacky, it’s also a way to target people without the privileges and security of a vice president’s daughter.

Just in case you weren’t aware, being a woman or LGBTQ+ person in this country sucks. Two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, ********* access has become

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Trans people are terrified

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. ****** and trans people have spent the whole Biden presidency watching their communities be targeted by

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,

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, and

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(with plenty of

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). And marginalized people writ large have a lot to lose no matter what happens during this presidential election.

Anyway, since we’ve got ******* fish to fry — Ella, if there’s something you want to tell me, I’m all ears. <3

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