My 22 year old son on Bernie versus HRC

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144. This is interesting to me because 'grating voice' is a frequent nasty criticism of Hillary as well.

Do a DU search if you care to. I tell people who use that against her the same thing I would tell your son, such things are highly subjective and such areas of criticism ( ie a candidates physical presence as opposed to policy preferences) are very risky areas to engage in. It makes me dislike the speaker when they say a candidate has physical characteristics they don't like because I'm not casting a soap opera here. Also, such realms of critique are very often employed as euphemisms and dog whistles.


Also, because I have known so many people who faced challenges because of the way they spoke, from the soft spoken to those with speech impediments, to people with regional accents both in this country and abroad. I'm very used to all of this, it is in fact even a part of my work.

The verbiage used tells much about the speaker and intent. For example, Hillary is often called shrill, Shrillary even. Men are never called shrill. She is also regularly compared to a school teacher, nagging wife or your Mother in lecture mode. All of that boils down to ' She's a woman, not a man'.
It's the sort of campaigning that makes people despise politics.