If you didn’t see Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s speech in response to Rep. Ted Yoho’s comments last week, please put this newsletter down and go watch it. If you don’t have the time to watch that video and read this newsletter, just watch that video. (I’ll be back next week.)

It’s a master class. A complete master class on sexism. On how being father and a husband doesn’t preclude one from being sexist, or a misogynist. Nothing we could say here holds a candle to what she said.

And that she said it so calmly, when she had every right to be angry. Amiright?

Wait. Let’s unpack that: That she said it so calmly, when she had every right to be angry.

I’m guessing that she said it so calmly because she knew she had to. She knew that fact either implicitly or explicitly. That in order to get her message across, she had to deliver it in a calm way.

She probably knows what so many of us know: that men are allowed a broader range of emotions at work. That they can “be heard” if they are angry. Or frustrated. Or emotional. Or even teary.

I saw that in my days on Wall Street. I used to say that our Citibank Monday morning leadership team meeting wasn’t over until someone lost their temper. No big deal. Happened every week. Except for that week that it was a woman who lost her cool … and then we were talking about it for months.

And the one time — one time — I lost my temper at Citi … well.

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