To the editor: Cydney Hurston Dupree shares her spectacular analysis on ladies leaders’ talking model to point out how Vice President Kamala Harris’ amiable rhetoric is an asset.
There isn’t any doubt that girls have a harder time gaining credibility because the “voice of authority.” The double customary results in audiences being extra crucial of ladies audio system. Figuring out it’s dangerous to problem the institution and the established order, ladies audio system want to arrange by getting crucial suggestions.
However who ought to do that teaching?
Attorneys and disaster communication specialists helped the three school presidents who addressed Congress relating to antisemitism on their campuses, and we noticed how poorly they did. The presidents declined to say that requires the genocide of Jews violated their universities’ codes of conduct, talking in generalities fairly than displaying empathy.
We are able to take a lesson from that debacle. Profitable ladies leaders know methods to straddle each shores, being empathetic in addition to answering questions with intelligence and concrete information of the problem.
As a public talking coach, I’m glad to see Harris convey heat to her marketing campaign whereas additionally talking concerning the complicated array of points she would face if elected.
Lois Phillips, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: I admire Dupree’s article celebrating Harris’ talking model, which former President Trump and his followers like to mock.
Insane cackle? Really, listening to her phrases, one understands that Harris is clever, articulate and highly effective. She does her homework and comes ready. She prosecutes the case successfully.
And sure, she likes to giggle. She is a cheerful, joyful one who manages to search out pleasure in public service.
Trump and his Republican followers, then again, are offended. Trump not often smiles or laughs. For all of the wealth and energy he inherited, there may be not the slightest shred of pleasure or happiness in his life.
They ridicule Harris as a result of they will’t start to know somebody who manages to come back throughout as each clever and joyful.
Douglas Dunn, Escondido
