Many women say Trump showed too much testosterone at debate
For more than 90 minutes on a national stage, they said Tuesday, Trump subjected the first female presidential candidate from a major party to indignities they experience from men daily, in the workplace and beyond.
Tweeted Chicago-based writer Britt Julious: "Thoughts & prayers to every woman watching the #debates & getting painful flashbacks to dudes talking over them at work, school, home, etc."
The sad thing, said Christina Emery, an author from Swansea, Illinois, is that I'm so used to men interrupting women — especially when they want to change the subject — that I didn't pay much attention to Trump's behavior.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of communication who is director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said Trump's frequent interruptions of Clinton conformed with research concluding that men in group meetings interrupt women more than vice versa.
"Mr. Trump gave a stellar performance and showed a comprehensive understanding of the issues voters are most interested in including trade, economic development, and job creation," she wrote in an email.
"It's frustrating in women's lives," said Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University who has written several books about how conversation affects relationships.
[...] Trump, whose roots are in reality TV and the male-dominated construction world, has always had an in-your-face style — and not just with women, as others pointed out on Tuesday.
"Many women watching Trump's treatment of Clinton feel a sickening sense of familiarity with patronizing behavior directed at them during every work day," said Dr. Janet Scarborough Civitelli, a vocational psychologist in Austin, Texas.
