Samantha Bee began her Full Frontal program last night showing clips of Trump and other right-wing dickheads attacking Hillary Clinton for being “too loud,” “unlikeable,” “not attractive enough”—all of the important things we are looking for when deciding who will help formulate our country’s policy at home and around the world. Samantha Bee decided to search out more expert advice.
To learn more I decided to head over to the United Nations to speak with former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Bee works in a nice sight-gag where Albright takes her into what looks like a normal public bathroom only to reveal an impressively large and ornate study filled with other professional women reading and mulling about. Bee asks Albright about Clinton’s womanhood being an issue during this campaign and Albright offers up another question.
Why are men afraid of women? I think we are seeing whatever previous relationship they might have had. Like the third grade teacher, telling Johnny to be nicer, or Donald.
Albright says that Trump’s sexist comments towards Clinton normalize that way of thinking to his base. Bee wants to know if this sexism will shuffle away once the election is decided, or will it be emboldened similarly to how racists seemed emboldened during President Barack Obama’s presidency. Albright suggests that Samantha Bee ask other female world leaders, who are of course at the United Nations.
Samantha Bee goes and talks with Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, President Michelle Bachelet of Chile, President Hilda Heine of the Marshall Islands and Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic. They discuss their experiences of being women leaders and the hurdles they face. President Bachelet talks about the balancing act expected of women concerning being too emotional or not emotional enough. Norway’s Solberg talks about other world leaders walking up to the oldest gentlemen in her cabinet, thinking they are the president. Grabar-Kitarovic talks about being a constant source of internet objectification with fake, semi-pornographic and fully pornographic imagery coming up on simple searches of her name.
Finally, in talking with the Marshall Islands President Hilda Heines, Bee hears of a world leader that gets mostly angry policy emails—something a world leader regardless of their gender, expects to come up against. Bee wonders how we can get some of that enlightenment in the states.
Enjoy!