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Suprak the Stud posted...

I think his point was there is a non-insignificant part of the country that resents her for being an overly ambitious woman, but at the same time wouldn't resent a man of similar ambitions. Not that Biden was necessarily unambitious.

Yeah, exactly. Many stereotypical traits seen as strength in male politicians are viewed negatively for women. I don't think this even requires sexism on the part of individuals; it's built in to the way ambitious women are portrayed in our society, so if people aren't careful they'll uncritically absorb the sentiment regardless.

Actually the main reason I feel compelled to point this type of thing out whenever I see it is that I myself had a vague dislike of Hillary (though nowhere near enough that I wouldn't have voted for her in the general) until around halfway through the 2016 primaries when I was challenged by a friend about what exactly she had done that was especially objectionable and came up empty.

(This isn't to say that all criticism of Clinton is sexism, but sexism absolutely contributes to her and other female politicians from getting way more criticism than a male politician would get from doing the exact same thing)

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