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Nate Silver… talked around the claim that resist libs were right. The whole thing just seemed to annoy him. He ultimately bypassed the question altogether. It was difficult for him to even understand us as he was “taking a more detached and analytical method”; whereas the liberal “approach might feel more emotionally right,” that didn’t make it correct. And there it is. Female-coded resistance liberalism is too emotional—Nate is riffing off a tweet calling us “hysterical pussy hats” — men like him and Matt are rational. I talk about this symbolic sexism a lot, but then it’s hard not to—it really is gender all the way down.