Female candidates are breastfeeding, discussing sexual assault in campaign ads

Protesters at a Women's March.
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Women running for office in 2018 are taking a new approach to campaign advertising, a Tuesday Politico report details, invoking gender in a way once considered inappropriate or ill-advised in a political context.

Some, like Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Kelda Roys (D), released video showing them breastfeeding their children. "[The president] is a guy who's been accused of sexually assaulting and harassing dozens of women," Roys said, and yet he was elected. "The idea that women will still have to walk this very narrow tightrope to be taken seriously and [be] seen as credible — I just think women candidates and women voters, they've had enough."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.