Trump's stamina attack on Clinton stirs talk of gender bias

[yallerdawg]

AP, Jill Colvin

He has repeatedly called attention to Clinton's voice, saying listening to her gives him a headache. Last December, he mocked her wardrobe. "She puts on her pantsuit in the morning," he told a Las Vegas audience. At rallies and in speeches, the billionaire mogul has also used stereotypes about women to demean Clinton, who stands to become America's first female president if she wins in November.

Trump's allies have piled on. Running mate Mike Pence often uses the word "broad-shouldered" to describe Trump's leadership and foreign policy style, a tacit swipe at Clinton. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani argued that all of the miles Clinton logged during as secretary of state resulted in more harm than benefit.

"Maybe it would've been better if she had stayed home," said Giuliani, who more recently questioned Clinton's health, suggesting an internet search of the words "Hillary Clinton illness."

Kelly Dittmar, a scholar at the Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics' Center for American Women and Politics, who has been tracking the gender dynamics in the race, said that even during the primaries when Trump was competing mostly against men, he took on the role of strong man, demeaning rivals.

"His message has been: I'm the manliest candidate, I'm the strongest, I know how to protect women - which is a pretty paternalistic take on it - I'm going to destroy ISIS and be very tough, to the point where he's talking about the size of his own manhood," she said of the candidate. "If you're trying to prove you're the manliest, then you're trying to emasculate your opponent."

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[redstatebluegirl]

1. I think this country has had enough testosterone for a while.

I am tired of his "man message". Try childbirth Donald, try taking care of family members who are ill, work 40 or 50 hours a week and then be expected to have a perfect house, kids and husband. Hell I'm even judged if I don't get cards to my husband's family for their birthdays. When I was working I could work circles around the men in my college for 2/3 of the money.

She is stronger than you will EVER be, we all are! It is our turn to show what we have been able to do from the start. Take care of you men, compromise, work out conflicts in a non combative manner.

Most men I know could not keep up with the women in their lives. I am more than sick of this shit.

[yallerdawg]

2. We have daily proofs...

all of our institutions are riddled with overt, covert, and at the very least subconscious sexism.

I would like to think women will take this opportunity to "roar"!

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Yes! And stop taking it every day with no response.

[spooky3]

5. + 1

[skylucy]

7. YES!

[splat]

4. These dopes should try to stand all day in high heels before they complain about her stool!

Totally sexist to assume she's weak because her feet hurt from high heels!

[riversedge]

6. Trump cried about a 3 hr. long debate. I am sick of his crying.

[Jamaal510]

8. He should be

among the last people mocking the stamina of someone else. He doesn't exactly look physically-fit, and he complained about a 3 hour debate previously.