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Jeralyn Merritt: Sexist Attacks on Hillary's Laugh
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog —
... Excuse me? How should a woman laugh? The inherent sexism in these characterizations should be obvious. And the point needs to be made that this is not really about how Hillary laughs because however she laughed, it would be criticized. If she snickered, "tee-heed", gleefully clapped her hands or raucously bellowed, all would be jumped on as inappropriate. As Ann at Feministing writes, "If they weren't using witch or schoolgirl allusions to describe the laugh, they'd no doubt be calling it "mannish." ...
The Cackle, Hillary's Cleavage and Giuliani's Cellphone: Why Is This the Talk of the Presidential Campaign?
The Feed —
... Sure, it humanizes Clinton a bit. But the laugh -- I agree with the Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar and others that the term cackle seems a bit pejorative and female-specific -- also allows Hillary to speak volumes without saying a word. ...
