Posted: 9/28/16 at 12:28pm
ray-andallthatjazz86 said: "The whole "I just don't trust her" thing that gets thrown around constantly when she comes up is not evidently a sexist reaction, but it goes back to our expectations that women should be nurturing, affable, and kind, and when they are not, then they must somehow be evil or conniving or whatnot. It's an unconscious level of misogyny that's harder to point out than explicit forms of sexism because it has little to do with the immediate reaction of hating women that we associate with words like "sexist.""
This is an excellent point, because Ezra Klein just did a video where he discussed "the gap" between how Hillary is perceived as a public figure (cold, calculating, ambitious) and how she is described by people who have worked with her (warm, loyal, devoted). Even though I personally don't think she comes across as cold and calculating as a public figure, and think she has every right to be outwardly ambitious, it's obvious that she's not coming across as a warm and maternal figure to most people.
As a personal example, we have a new Vice-Chancellor at the University I work for (in a New York-based office), who happens to be the first woman to be named Vice-Chancellor of this particular school. She is SUPER brilliant and quite lovely, but she is nowhere near as gregarious as her predecessor. I just said to a coworker that I don't think she (the new Vice-Chancellor) could ever be as outgoing as her predecessor, because she wouldn't be taken seriously as a leader if she was a woman who was that overly demonstrative.
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