{"id":104296,"date":"2016-04-22T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/22\/thepoliticalnotebook-vox-takes-on-the-trope-of-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:22:42","slug":"thepoliticalnotebook-vox-takes-on-the-trope-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/22\/thepoliticalnotebook-vox-takes-on-the-trope-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-104296 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/22\/thepoliticalnotebook-vox-takes-on-the-trope-of-2\/attachment\/104297\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5wh6aH93J1qchhhqo2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5wh6aH93J1qchhhqo2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5wh6aH93J1qchhhqo2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/22\/thepoliticalnotebook-vox-takes-on-the-trope-of-2\/attachment\/104298\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5wh6aH93J1qchhhqo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5wh6aH93J1qchhhqo1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5wh6aH93J1qchhhqo1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalnotebook.tumblr.com\/post\/143078831947\" target=\"_blank\">thepoliticalnotebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b><a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/m6b8mdMSAX1vdrkchlUWI1g\" target=\"_blank\">@vox<\/a> takes on the trope of the hypercompetent female sidekick<\/b>. You know her \u2013 the one who\u2019s the smartest, toughest and most capable yet ends up being rescued by the less talented, but extremely straight, white, cisgender and male hero.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This intersects well with discussions about the pay gap and obstacles women face in their careers. For those of us who aren\u2019t straight white cisgender men \u2013 the persistence of being typecast as not-the-hero (or the boss, or the leader, or the expert commenter) despite qualifications, talents and capabilities is a lived reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thepoliticalnotebook: @vox takes on the trope of the hypercompetent female sidekick. You know her \u2013 the one who\u2019s the smartest, toughest and most capable yet ends up being rescued by the less talented, but extremely straight, white, cisgender and male hero.\u00a0 This intersects well with discussions about the pay gap and obstacles women face in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/22\/thepoliticalnotebook-vox-takes-on-the-trope-of-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12890,12889,1228,4,3127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104299,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104296\/revisions\/104299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}