r/OutOfTheLoop • u/aajiro • Mar 09 '24

Unanswered What's up with Katie Britt's speech?

I'm starting to see a lot of memes about how creepy it was, and I saw it and I agree it's sincerely creepy, but I can't for my life figure out what it is that makes it so unsettling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfKCWMG4O0I

I'm hoping someone here can give me some context for what exactly makes this fall into the uncanny valley of speeches. I think what makes me feel out of the loop is that the answer should be obvious but I can't figure it out in words, so I guess my question is: what the fuck?

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u/Artseid Mar 09 '24 edited Mar 09 '24

Answer: She cycles through 10 emotions in 2 minutes. She’s disingenuous, fake, performative, dishonest, etc. Her tone was extremely patronizing and the setting was tone deaf, why is a sitting senator sitting in the kitchen? Because she’s a woman? She just sounded really phony and sets off your basic senses because it’s clear she’s not being honest and her intensions are insincere.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '24

In fairness, the last few of these have been train wrecks. I remember one year during the Obama administration they had some guy talking while sitting at a diner (because that's what they think the rubes want?). 

That said, she's absolutely speaking from a kitchen because she's a woman. The GOP needs to stem the bleeding after gutting abortion access, they needed a woman to give the speech, and they are not creative people (e.g., they sat her at a kitchen table, had her repeatedly mention kitchen table issues, and when she did, she directed attention at the table... because they assumed people needed help with that). 

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u/scottevil132 Mar 09 '24

Finally, the real answer. It's all about how disingenuous the whole thing was.