Kamala Harris suggests sexism is to blame for criticism of her cackle
Vice President Kamala Harris suggested sexism was to blame for comments about her notorious cackling laugh in an interview with Drew Barrymore — crediting her mother for her tendency to break out in ill-timed giggle fits.
“Like, apparently, some people love to talk about the way I laugh,” Harris told the actress-turned-talk-show-host in a segment airing Monday, Mediaite reported.
“Well, let me just tell you something: I have my mother’s laugh,” the veep continued. “And I grew up around a bunch of women, in particular, who laughed from the belly.”
“You know, I’m never going to be —” she said, pausing to mockingly produce a genteel titter behind a ladylike hand. “I’m not that person.”
“And I think it’s really important for us to remind each other and — and our younger ones: Don’t be confined to other people’s perception about what this looks like and … how you should act in order to be.”
The appearance came days after CNN reported that a focus group paid for by the Democratic National Committee found Harris’s habit of publicly busting a gut at inappropriate moments — or for inscrutable reasons — irritates voters to no end.
