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Monica Hesse: The unique harm we cause when we dissect a powerful woman’s love life

As of this week, women are running for president — multiple women — and lo, the country has been awarded the chance for a do-over. This time, we swear, we won’t order them to smile more if they really want our votes. This time, we’ll stop using phrases such as “likable enough?” when what we really mean is, “too many ovaries?”

Our collective consciousness has been raised and so we’ll begin by ... excavating one of the candidate’s decades-old love life?

The candidate in question in Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., whose past relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was confirmed for the national media when Brown published an op-ed: Yes, they'd dated.