The way we all talk about candidates “experience” depending on their gender is gross. Being a man is experience enough for most. Add being rich and white on top of that and it’s a perfectly qualified candidate.

Women in all levels have shown their lived experience to be invaluable.

Sarah Iannarone is a small business co-founder, a working class mom, a cancer survivor, a policy expert, and smartest person I know. But she isn’t rich, white, or a man.

You know how women get the experience that counts enough for editorial boards? By us electing them. Women will remain “unproven” in their eyes until then.

Also, Wheeler is a perfect example of straight white male privilege. He has failed in his job and is given every benefit of the doubt and the strongest pitch for him is that he’s already had the job. How did he get that job though?