Ok, no. Repeating the word like every two words and pronouncing every word with an upward inflection is obnoxious regardless of gender. Kinda reaching with that.

1. They’re right that Hillary Clinton’s speaking voice is a far cry from the mellifluous timbre of a songbird. I would not buy any albums she recorded.

I love great orators. I’ve even written for one. But please explain to me how being a great speaker is going to make my life or my daughter’s life better? I want someone to get in there and get shit done.

“I feel” is nowhere near as dangerous a phrase as “I believe.” Society absolves all kinds of injustices because of somebody’s beliefs. Case-in-point: defunding Planned Parenthood, exemption from birth control and contraception coverage under the AHCA, and denying services to homosexuals are all rooted in arguments…

As I was reading this I kept remembering a professors who told me “no one cares what you think, what does the primary source tell you?” when I was an undergrad.

I teach speech at a Comm. College in Houston. One of my main objectives is to get our students to be sensitive to context- when to lead with the hedging ‘I feel’ and when the situation requires assertiveness. This is quite a task. Sometimes I hear them lead with, ‘The way I was raised’ or ‘I grew up thinking’ which is…