By Carmen Schober | Evie
After JD Vance stole the show on Tuesday, Politico scrambled to help out Harris-Walz, and the best they could come up with was turning Vance’s beard into a weapon of patriarchal terror.
“One of the first bits of nonverbal communication to appear in the debate was on JD Vance’s face: his beard,” they wrote. “As Politico Magazine has noted before, Vance is the first White House wannabe to wear facial hair in 80 years. Our appearance is fundamental to our body language, and research indicates that voters see beards as (surprise, surprise) more masculine. That can be positive to some, reading as strength and competence. But to others, especially women, it can be negative, conveying aggression and opposition to feminist ideals.”