...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
and
Hillary Clinton... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as
the smartest woman in the world,usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
, in which actors of the opposite sex played the roles of the two candidates, exactly mimicking their every move and intonation. The results of the gender swapping experiment stunned both professors and the mostly liberal audiences who attended the performances.
Obviously the data were flawed.
NYU reports that while both professors say they "began the project assuming that the gender inversion would confirm what they’d each suspected watching the real-life debates: that Trump’s aggression--his tendency to interrupt and attack--would never be tolerated in a woman, and that Clinton’s competence and preparedness would seem even more convincing coming from a man," the result of the gender reversal was almost exactly the opposite.
You mean Hillarity was still wooden and condescending and Trump wasn't?
Many in the audience were "shocked" to find the male version of Hillary to actually be harder to admire than the real Hillary, while the female Trump seemed to "shine" in moments they'd remembered the real Trump "flailing or lashing out." The overall experience for many Hillary voters was both "bewildering and instructive."
"Flipped my blinders from verticle to horizontal, by golly! Now the sun don't get in my eyes. I'm kinda not as happy she won...
Maria Guadalupe, an economics and political science associate professor at INSEAD, first had the idea for the project after watching the second debate between Trump and Clinton. For help, she approached educational theater professor Joe Salvatore, who specializes in plays called "ethnodramas," which are theatrical adaptations of real life events documented in media artifacts, interviews, transcripts, journal entries, etc.
"Whuddya mean, 'She din't win?'"
In an interview with NYU published Feb. 28, Salvatore explained how surprised he and his colleague were by their reactions to the female Trump (renamed "Brenda King," played by Rachel Whorton) and the male Hillary ("Jonathan Gordon"/Daryl Embry).
"I din't know nobody who voted fo him!"
"We both thought that the inversion would confirm our liberal assumption--that no one would have accepted Trump’s behavior from a woman, and that the male Clinton would seem like the much stronger candidate," said Salvatore. "But we kept checking in with each other and realized that this disruption--a major change in perception--was happening. I had an unsettled feeling the whole way through."
"I'm gonna go demonstrate someplace! Where's my pussy hat?"
Salvatore noted that at one point he turned to Guadalupe and, in reference to the female Trump, said, "I kind of want to have a beer with her!"
| The two minute video at the link is really worth watching. |