Ocasio-Cortez’s critics also pounced on the Times report and accused the Democrat of being a hypocrite for splashing out on her hair while taking a stand against income inequality. The Times also contrasted her cut and color to Jeff Sessions’s reportedly thrifty trim, and suggested she should have saved money by visiting the House barber.
“She could get a cheap haircut and give the rest away to those in need,” read one complaint on Twitter.
Now the congresswoman, who turns 30 next week, is pushing back against the uproar. On Thursday, she interrupted her visit to Copenhagen for the C40 World Mayors Summit to call out the “right-wing” for fixating on her hair rather than tackling poverty.
She credited Democratic socialist policies for advancing “prosperity for working people,” sassily adding that critics are ‘just mad we look good doing it.”
40 million Americans live in poverty under today’s extreme inequality, yet the right-wing want you to blame Democratic socialism for their own moral failures.
Our policies, like Medicare for All, advance prosperity for working people.
They’re just mad we look good doing ittwitter.com/jacobinmag/sta…
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“I wonder if Republicans care about corruption as much as they care about a woman’s cut and color,” she added in a follow-up tweet which referenced Vice President Mike Pence’s own expenses.
Won’t you look at that: Mike Pence used *taxpayer funds* - not personal ones - to spend several thousand haircuts’ worth of public money on a visit to Trump golf courses.
I wonder if Republicans care about corruption as much as they care about a woman’s cut & color. twitter.com/crewcrew/statu…
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Ocasio-Cortez isn’t the only one who found the backlash to be sexist. Many women came to her defense, arguing that the nearly $300 price tag wasn’t out of the ordinary and that she was being unfairly targeted because of her gender and politics.
$80 for a NYC haircut!? Good for you @AOC PUT THIS WOMAN IN CHARGE OF ALL OUR MONEY <3
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Look I wasn’t going to get involved in this @AOC hair scandal. I really wasn’t. Bc I’m a defense reporter and, why? But I cannot NOT remark that the story seems distressed that AOC, a “socialist,” got a $300 haircut instead of...a government-subsidized one?washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/…
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1) this would obvs never be a story about a man
2) this is not an expensive haircut/color for a public figure who is frequently on TV
3) if her hair was raggedy, that would be the lead story instead
4)washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/…
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Leaving all other issues aside, $80 for a woman's haircut is a bargain in NYC. What are people expecting #AOC to do? Go to a salon's free hair model night? twitter.com/WashTimes/stat…
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