What Men Say When They Won’t Stop Talking
6 min readOct 11, 2020
Interrupting and talking over others is not just boorish and rude. It’s a means of dis-empowering and silencing.
What we witnessed during the vice-presidential debate was a man repeatedly talking over a woman. He would not let her speak. He imposed his words, his presence, over hers.
He was trying to silence and erase her voice, and in doing so, make her presence…
