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Yoho called AOC out of her name, and we all can draw strength from her clapback
It’s been a week since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was called out of her name by her colleague Rep. Ted Yoho. It’s been four days since she took to the House floor and provided the most elegant clapback that eviscerated Yoho’s paltry excuse for an apology and explained why his “I’m a husband and father” respectability politics don’t matter anymore.
Building on the tireless and oftentimes silent sacrifices of our grandmothers and mothers, today’s women just aren’t having it anymore.
“I could not allow my nieces, I could not allow the little girls I go home to, I could not allow victims of verbal abuse and worse to see that, to see that excuse and to see our Congress accept it as legitimate and accept it as an apology,” Ocasio-Cortez told her peers.
AOC uttered these words because Yoho had the audacity to say such awful things about her, and she knew she couldn’t allow little girls and women alike to think she (and they) must just sit back and take it. “You’re disgusting.” “You’re out of your mind.” “F***ing bitch.” After his comments were overheard by a Hill reporter and outrage on social media ensued, Yoho took to the House floor last week to provide an…
