2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf she doesn't smile, she's a bitch.
If she does smile, she's "smug". Discuss.
Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)Trump showed up and didn't have a TOTAL meltdown on live TV, so he won the debate. See how it works?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)athena
(4,187 posts)Our society has a terrible double standard, which the media is more than happy to uphold. Not to worry, however. We have an amazing candidate who does well no matter what is thrown her way. If there is one woman who can beat our society's sexism, it's Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Men use the identical stage presence and get praised for it. But then again I hate it when they do it also. Just like I hate singers who smile while they are singing, no matter what the song.
Yes there is a bold double standard. Men get away with not smiling. Women don't. Men get away with smiling while they stick a knife in their opponent. Women don't. So there is nothing fair about it, but where Hillary could score some points would be if she smiled while joking about herself, or if she laughed reacting to some spontaneous unscripted moment. She can be really disarming in that way during live interviews. Unfair as it is, she would do well if more Americans could see her in that way.
But Trump's demeanor is AWFUL and that always should be getting 10 times the attention that Hillary's gets.
jcgoldie
(11,639 posts)Especially when you have small hands like Donnie.