I cannot believe I have to actually explain kinja system to a troll, you must be new at this you poor thing, So- each star + comment provided to an original post will push the original comment higher on the sorting algorithm meaning you comment, I respond, my original comment gets more views, yours are so far down on…

I am glad we agree about not commenting on speaking voices and rather on how emphasis affects it. You come across as a troll. Blue. Also if you want to keep doing this I want to take the time to remind of how kinja works since you seem to have forgotten, every single time you respond to me, and I in turn respond to…

unless the "absence of a specific adjective" means shrill at which point kudos to you because I thought we were having a genuine conversation all this time

So, you want a person to read a statement (ex: Trump is a terrible speaker) and then have them explain the conclusion they leapt to by reading it but they are not allowed to ask you for clarification on why you said that? That’s circular, you want their reasoning without providing your own to back yourself up. If you…

I liked the speech and that it was about togetherness, and choosing love over hate and fear. I also thought it was beautiful that she made the point of saying you know my persona, so here are some things you should know about ME. However as I texted my friend: “George Washington didn’t kill redcoats so that I would be…

my exact thought, I was like Papa Kaine I defended you yesterday. I fought for you and this is what you do :(

No the writer was referencing Barack in the article

You think there should be more nuance involved in the judgment of speeches but you do not want to have to be specific about your likes and dislikes in regards to peoples speeches, I must be misunderstanding something because there seems to be a disconnect between these two desires, as in my eyes, providing clear…

Those goal posts must be heavy every time you lift them

I cannot answer your first paragraph, as I am not the person who would jump on you for it without first asking what was found to be distasteful. As for your second point it is literally the easiest thing in the world to criticize a woman for her public speaking and avoid doing it without invoking gendered terms, there…

I wouldn’t use shrill in the first place, as the only things shrill implies are either a higher pitched sound (which a person cannot constantly control, their vocal chords are going to do what their vocal chords are going to do when they speak, and singers train for years to achieve a larger vocal range) or as a…

Its not about any criticism being invalid, its about how those criticisms are presented and what the criticisms actually are. I have answered this twice already and you are free to look at the answers in the thread (I do not want to retype them because then a person looking at the thread would just see three comments…

I actually answered this in a another comment, its more about using terms that historically carry gendered connotations, for example the words you used in comparing her to Michelle Obama are all traditionally neutral terms when used to describe something, both men and women can and often are described as sincere…

There are a few words that are specifically gendered that one would want to avoid when describing the speech and its cadence, “Shrill” is probably the most common one so lets focus on that, it seems innocuous but in writing shrillness is often associated with femininity, annoyance, and fear. (when referring to males…

Yeah there were a few, there was also a shot where she was not facing the mainstage and a child was trying to get her attention while she was talking to someone else and she stopped and got down on their level to talk to the kid and then went back up to talk to the adult. I used to work at a theme park and that’s…

I mean I didn’t say it you did, and I didn’t find anything in your statement to mark you as one besides your self admittance so...? As for forced vs candid I don’t know how long you watched but on youtube it ran the whole thing as a stream so they had tons of shots of her just playing with them when others were…

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.

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 can actually imagine her enthusiasm as she said "they cut off my head!" I hope it was as good to hear in person as I am picturing it being

Not yet but I imagine it will be up by the end of the day