"Hillary, getting your a** kicked by a Black man doesn't look too good for The Clinton Legacy."
"Drop dead, Bill."
Posted on 07/12/2008 2:00:45 PM PDT by Libloather
Anger management for women
We regard irritability in men as a sign of status. But in women, we see it as a sign of incompetence
Clare Longrigg guardian.co.uk, Friday July 11, 2008
Hillary Clinton's occasional irritable outbursts on the campaign trail were accompanied by a sound of tut-tutting from observers: she can't hack it; she's not in control.
Had she been a man, these outbursts of anger would have been interpreted as assertiveness, intolerance of fools, a sign of status.
A Yale psychologist who worked in Clinton's office has produced a report demonstrating that while people accept anger in men, in women an outburst of temper betrays incompetence. In a simulated job interview, researchers discovered that angry men were perceived to deserve more status and a higher salary; when female candidates got angry, it was assumed they were not up to the job.
These findings, unfortunately, merely echo what women tend to feel about themselves.
Women contemplating a role in public life tend to be assailed with feelings of unworthiness; they lack the sense of entitlement that many men unquestioningly own.
More women than men are prey to what psychologists call impostor syndrome: they are convinced that the minute they experience some kind of success, they will be exposed as fakes.
When women start a new job, they tend to feel they are "faking it", a feeling that doesn't always lift once they have mastered their new role. Some women spend years just waiting to be found out. And the extra exposure that public or political life entails makes this anxiety even more acute.
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"Hillary, getting your a** kicked by a Black man doesn't look too good for The Clinton Legacy."
"Drop dead, Bill."
Had she been a man, these outbursts of anger would have been interpreted as assertiveness, intolerance of fools, a sign of status.
No, not really. A sign that someone's promoted above their competence, perhaps. Or is just a horses behind.
Just goes to show you, in the Liberal mind, Liberals don’t lose elections. Elections are stolen from them by less worthy opponents. Liberalism is a form of Narcissism.
Hopefully they’ll take their anger out on Obama. Whenever possible I try to complain about the sexist treatment of Hillary to Democrats I work with. It was so sexist even a male like myself could see it. It’s my own private operation chaos.
In other words, the finding's are accurate....
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