+Senator Elizabeth Warren lays it out in no uncertain terms for the republican party and the drumpf/trump-pence ticket, WOMEN, ESPECIALLY NASTY WOMEN, ARE GOING TO VOTE, AND NOT FOR THEM!!!!! How many national elections must the republicans loose to get the message that Americans are fed up with their misogynic, sexist, racist, bigoted, xenophobic, hate filled right wing extremist rhetoric? Check this out from +Crooks and Liars and +NPR .....
Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, and Maggie Hassan took the stage in New Hampshire today, where Warren delivered a message to Donald Trump from nasty women everywhere.
"He thinks because he is a celebrity that he can rate women's bodies from 1 to 10. He thinks that because he has a mouth full of Tic Tacs that he can force himself on any woman within groping distance."
"Well, i've got news for you, Donald Trump -- women have had it with guys like you! And nasty women have really had it with guys like you!"
"Get this, Donald -- nasty women are tough. Nasty women are smart. And nasty women vote."
"On November 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever!"
The crowd cheered. So did I. This nasty woman already cast her nasty vote and mailed it back. Lots of nasty women I know did that already.
I've been watching Twitter to see if he's reacted yet, but so far radio silence. I'm thinking we'll see the tweetstorm later on tonight. You know he won't be able to resist.
Maybe Janet Jackson was just sitting quietly at home Wednesday night, not even watching the debate, playing some of her old music on vinyl, counting her money, reflecting on her influence on popular music and culture.
Or maybe she was watching. Maybe she's a political junkie. Or perhaps, just like the rest of us, she just can't take her eyes off the train wreck Election 2016 has become.
Either way, Ms. Jackson surely couldn't have expected that toward the end of this third and final presidential debate, one of her own songs would become the soundtrack to one of the night's most memorable moments. And she surely couldn't have foreshadowed how much poetic justice the entire ordeal would bring.
Toward the end of the debate, during a discussion of Social Security, Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton to call her "such a nasty woman" (at 0:20 in this clip):
Of course, Twitter had thoughts about this, and before long, "nasty woman" seemed to become a feminist rallying cry.
And in all the online discussion, one Janet Jackson song seemed to be the biggest recipient of attention post-"nasty woman."
Social media began to reference the classic Jackson track "Nasty" from her breakout 1986 album Control, with signature lines such as, "No my first name ain't baby, It's Janet, Miss Jackson if ya nasty" and "Nasty boys don't mean a thing, oh you nasty boys."
"Hillary.. Pres. Clinton if you're NASTY!"#ImWithHer#NastyWoman #Nasty #Control #HillaryClinton @HillaryClinton#Debate #DebateNight
"such a nasty woman" #debatenight
It was all quite fun. But there's a little more to unpack behind the initial association. Janet Jackson's Control, and "Nasty," a single from said album, are feminist master works. Control was the album Jackson used to declare freedom from overbearing family members and management. She used the album to assert her own control — as a young, black woman — over her entire career. In fact, the first words you hear Jackson utter on the album are these:
And the lyrics of "Nasty" show a woman demanding gender equality and control over her own romantic decisions from the men who might pursue her.
Could Donald Trump have ever thought that calling his opponent a "nasty woman" would reintroduce the nation to one of America's great moments in pop feminism?
We may never know.
In a New York Times essay honoring the 30th anniversary of Control, culture critic Wesley Morris argues that as groundbreaking as much of Janet Jackson's work is, it doesn't hold up that well. You don't hear it on the radio or in the clubs nearly as much as you would her contemporaries. He laments this reality.
Who's jamming to that nasty groove?
It's you lot, with streams of Nasty up 250% since last night…#debatesspoti.fi/2en2Ikb
That changed Wednesday, at least for one night and at least for one song. Soon after "nasty woman" broke, streaming service Spotify revealed that online streams of the Jackson track are already up 250 percent. How nasty.
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