Elizabeth Warren Was Told to Be Quiet. Women Can Relate.

Was there a woman who didn’t recognize herself in the specter of Elizabeth Warren silenced by a roomful of men?

The explosion of indignation, mockery and free publicity that greeted Tuesday night’s move to prevent Senator Warren from reading a letter about Senator Jeff Sessions written by Coretta Scott King resonates with so many women precisely because they have been there, over and over again. At a meeting where you speak up, only to be cut off by a man. Where your ideas are ignored until a man repeats them and then they are pure genius — or, simply, acknowledged.

Being interrupted or ignored, and being one of the few women in the room, can be both inhibiting and enraging. You check your own perception: Was I being too aggressive, or did I really have a point? Is this about being a woman, or something else?

Read the full opinion article by Susan Chira in The New York Times.