Making fun of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ chuckle is nothing to laugh about.
It’s actually sexist, Harris said recently.
Harris commented on the criticisms she has received about her laugh during an appearance on the “Rich Little Broke Girls” podcast, per Fox News.
The former vice president talked about a reporter asking about criticisms of not being humble.
“I don’t aspire to be humble. Humility, yes, is very important. [It’s] a very dated perspective on who women should be. To say, women should be humble. Women should be quiet. Women should laugh quietly,” Harris said.
“Women should not have a sense of humor. Women should not raise their voice,” she added. “I have never felt burdened by those very dated, and I think out-of-touch standards.”
Harris also talked about the issue on the “Drew Barrymore Show” last year.
“Like, apparently, some people love to talk about the way I laugh,” Harris said on the talk show.
“Well, let me just tell you something: I have my mother’s laugh,” she said. “And I grew up around a bunch of women, in particular, who laughed from the belly.”
Harris thinks a good laugh is so important, she shared some dating advice on the “Rich Little Broke Girls” podcast.
“Choose to be with someone who allows you to laugh at yourself and them,” she said. “Choose to be with someone who you know you like, going to the grocery store together, taking a walk together.”
“There are different phases in your life, and you may not know what phase you’re in,” Harris said. “Maybe you’re going to choose that you want to have that kind of Friday night relationship — or you want that Sunday morning relationship. Sometimes you can get both — and sometimes they just are oil and water. And that’s okay! Be in those phases where you are having fun!”
Harris springboarded off the different phases in life by acknowledging she is not sure her relationship with husband Doug Emhoff would have materialized earlier in her life.
“Doug and I got married in our 40s, and I love my husband so very much. He is my best friend,” Harris said. The two got married in 2014.
“We’ve talked about it. If we had met in our 20s, I don’t know that we would have really been in the same place,” she said.
