Never Change, Ella Emhoff
Ella Emhoff, step-daughter of current Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, has done it again. And by "done it again," I mean "done absolutely nothing wrong yet still earned an absurd amount of baseless outrage."
Emhoff's crimes include simply standing next to Doug Emhoff, her father and Harris' husband, at the Democratic National Convention and being probably the best-dressed person to attend any DNC in the history of the DNC.
On August 19, for instance, Emhoff paired Harris' Chappell Roan-coded campaign hat with a few runway-fresh pieces from Peter Do's new Helmut Lang.
Emhoff's second-night victory lap? Death Grips merch (!). Another DNC first!
25-year-old Emhoff, who runs a knitting project called Soft Hands Knit Club, was otherwise fairly composed at the DNC, only occasionally daring to have fun. Like, at one point, she made a heart with her hands.
Evil and twisted stuff, according to the right-wing outrage machine, which clearly finds the mere existence of young people tremendously upsetting.
There's already been plenty of coverage over the "MAGA meltdown" inspired by Emhoff's presence so there's no point in giving any of it additional airtime. I'd argue it doesn't even deserve attention in the first place.
Instead, consider a few truths that really ought to be self-evident: There is nothing offensive about being a young woman. There is nothing offensive about tattoos. There is nothing offensive about armpit hair.
There is also nothing offensive about having personal style, though it seems as though you're more likely to get mad about it if, well, you don't got it.
And, much to the right-wing's chagrin, Emhoff has objectively strong personal style.
Like, when we're talking about wearing Miu Miu and Thom Browne to a presidential inauguration, you must recognize that we're talking peak good taste. And remember that Emhoff was barely of legal drinking age when she wore that stuff back then.
As such, all these people clutching their pearls about Emhoff literally just vibing are doing a very poor job masking their envy with rage.
Obviously, they wish they dressed half as well as Emhoff does when they were her age. Who wouldn't? It's just that normal, well-adjusted people don't process their own insecurities by blindly attacking a 25-year-old online.
