Frustrated female senators say Clinton is victim of sexism
Women serving in the Senate say Hillary Clinton is being subjected to an unfair, sexist double standard on the campaign trail.
Criticisms of Clinton’s tone of voice have become prominent in recent weeks, stirring strong feelings among Senate Democratic women who say they too have had to battle the stereotype of the shrill female.
“She’s often judged by a double standard,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), the dean of the Senate women...
Many of we women feel that there’s a double standard. What’s being said about Hillary is what women have heard for centuries. You’re too loud, you’re too aggressive, you’re too pushy. Why do you want the vote?”...
Female lawmakers were particularly galled by recent statements by Washington Post columnist Bob Woodward, one of the nation’s most respected journalists, characterizing Clinton’s tone as “screaming.”
“She shouts. There’s something unrelaxed about the way she is communicating,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
The comment prompted the show’s host, Joe Scarborough, to interject, ”I was watching her and I said to myself, ‘Has nobody told her how the microphone works?’”
http://thehill.com/news/senate/269341-frustrated-female-senators-say-clinton-is-victim-of-sexism
Bernie shouts quite a bit--do these male "journalists" attack him as "unrelaxed"?
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