Scott Moss writes:
“[Consider the implicit sexism of] Republican National Chair Ken Mehlman’s statement, “Hillary Clinton seems to have a lot of anger.”
“Hillary always struck me as quite un-impassioned for such an icon of the left, in contrast to, say, Russ Feingold, Ted Kennedy, or the post-defeat John Kerry. Also, since when is the Republican party free of “anger”? Last I heard, their 2008 front-runners are John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, two of the bigger hotheads in American politics. Criticizing the “anger” of a prominent woman — one who in fact displays less “anger” than so many of her peers at the top of American politics — seems like the old gender double-standard: gotta be tough enough to prove you can play on traditionally male turf, but not so tough you seem too strikingly gender-inappropriate.”
