Everyone's Talking About Bernie Sanders' Finger Wagging in Last Night's Debate [View all]

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http://www.glamour.com/inspired/blogs/the-conversation/2016/02/everyones-talking-about-bernie

HA! Senator Jazz Hands gets panned in Glamour:

Amid the morning-after pundrity, there is one thing from last night's debate that people from almost every political viewpoint can agree on: Bernie Sanders wags his finger a lot. He used it to scold Clinton; he used it to signal to the moderators that he wanted to speak; he used it to express his disgust with the 1%. It was... unusual.

The Washington Post made a helpful video compilation.

It's notable though, that Sanders was shaking his finger at women. He was the only man on stage (!), along with Secretary Clinton and moderators Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill. In that context, the finger wagging came off as especially imperious and condescending, as noted by many on Twitter. Some saw it as an example of mansplaining, though his supporters mostly just found it hilarious.