Because woman - who are the ones being honored in the magazine - aren't allowed to take issue to whom it was presented to?
People complained about Sean Penn selected to portray Harvey Milk, Al Pacino as a Cuban in Scarface, Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens in La Bamba, Louis Gossett Jr. as Anwar Sadat in Sadat, Natalie Wood & George Chakiris in West Side Story... and this was just acting as characters in movie.
It's alright for people of a particular background to complain about these people not born into the 'group' they represent in a non-documentary medium but women (and others) in the real world have to grin and bear taking a back seat to someone born biologically different yet displacing them for selection in a potential appointent because a formally anti-busing representative decided he suddenly had to appoint people representing different demographics of the day (except those of Asian ethnicity I found out last night) to show how hep he is and help assure Trump's reelection in 2024 by triggering the reactionaries?
Heck, what DID Levine do to merit the honor other than getting the gig and under the label attached, which, ironically, is a segregationist one parading as 'inclusion'? Hyphenated people being classed as "not-quite, but..," as usual, ye olde "My friend the..."
Is Psaki in there too? Was she even considered? At least we've heard of her and on a daily basis, no less, where she gets a loads of tomatoes tossed at her and has to grin and bear it.
Didn't mean to get too ranty, but not taking other perspectives into consideration and not caring whether they are offended is kind of missing the point of the designation and its intent.
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