It’s freaking me out that Al Gore, in that video, was younger than I am now. I’ve done nothing with my life.

It’s really amazing. It’s especially frustrating to consider the fact that This American Life gets constant criticism for the vocal fry that their female contributors exhibit, but IRA GLASS—who has like a textbook example of vocal fry—never gets criticized for it.

“Shrill” means “Spoken by a woman who is daring to challenge a man”

“Robotic” and “insincere” are both perfectly fine criticisms. So, in fact, are Sullivan’s “pedestrian” and “uninspiring”. People are free to disagree with you, but those are terms that are routinely applied to male speakers as well as female.

What a coincidence! It just so happens that there’s virtually always something objectionable about the voices of women who speak up in public. I’m sure it has nothing to do with internalized sexism. Just like how women are criticized for every vocal trait imaginable—saying “like” too much, upspeak, vocal fry—while men…

Like these fuckers didn’t elect George W. Bush - twice!- with that country elf voice of his. All he did was inspire me to want to throw books at him, yet they still made him president. GTFO with this crap.

Do people really not understand what the term “shrill” means? If anything, I think that Hillary’s speaking voice is a bit dull and flat. It lacks the vibrancy of the Obamas, for example.

Here’s what’s important to me in a President

You can address it, but address it in a way that isn’t sexist. The criticisms launched by Hume and Sullivan both fell into the trap of criticizing her for things that, if they were coming from someone with the bass provided by having an adam’s apple and more testosterone, would have been considered perfectly fine.

You know the first time I have ever seen her act like the person that people have met her describe her as, rather than the persona that she's been forced to create is when all those balloons came down from the celling? Her simple unguarded joy made me burst into tears.

They’ve been doing it for the last thirtyish years....why stop now?

I definitely think Sullivan fell into the trap of double standards when it comes to men and women speaking.

Get used to it. They’re going to complain about her voice, her tone, her not smiling enough, her face, her hair, her clothes for the next 8 years. But not because they’re sexist or anything.

Bizarre Hillary attacks won’t go away in November. Just ask Obama.

That’s what I laugh about. Have these fuckers ever heard Donald Trump speak? Or listened to recordings of some of our previous presidents? JFK sounded like he swallowed the city of Boston and a silver spoon. And Lincoln allegedly had an awful speaking voice.

If I already had eleventy zillion dollars or whatever Biebz is sitting on, I sure as shit wouldn’t. In fact I would use 5 million of my own money to print tshirts for every person in Cleveland that said something pithily disparaging about republicans and then also a lot of tshirt cannons for people to fire the extra…

so what do they want? some breathless sweet little girl voice?

I read a NY post article that that broke down the cadence of her speech pattern and died a bit inside, the "best" part was that the author was like "I'm not sexist, I'm just honest! I said yesterday Obamas speech was good and if hers was I would have too!" It was literally the "I'm not biased I have (minority)…

I hope Justin knows that LeBron saved him from a epic twitter drag

Even I can’t be cynical about Orlando Bloom taking pictures of Katy Perry’s speech and performance. That’s supportive and adorable.