Clinton's debate performance spoke to every woman who has had to humor an incompetent man

[DonViejo]

Updated by Emily Crockett @emilycrockett [e-mail] Sep 27, 2016, 2:50p

Hillary Clinton debated circles around Donald Trump during Monday night’s presidential debate. She had prepared, coherent answers, while Trump had unprepared, chaotic word salad. She subtly baited him into flying off the handle and loudly interrupting her, while she kept smiling and maintained her cool. It was a masterful performance.

But for many women watching the debate, it was also a frustrating reminder of just how hard Clinton has to work to overcome sexist double standards — and how hard most women have to work every day to do the same.

Maacah Davis, founder of Belladonna Magazine, perfectly captured this frustration in a Facebook post. Davis said that Clinton is “every woman who has ever been challenged by a guy who had no idea what he was talking about” but who still has to “pretend that his opinions and feelings are just as valid as the facts her experience have taught her.”

Maacah Davis

September 26 at 9:48pm ·

I'm not even a Hillary Clinton fan but, as a woman, I am so angry for her. She's having to entertain, campaign against, and possibly lose to, a man who is nowhere close to being her equal. Like, wow. She is currently every woman who has ever been challenged by a guy who had no idea what he was talking about--and she can't just scream "shut up," she can't blow her top like she has every right to. She has to sit here and pretend that his opinions and feelings are just as valid as the facts her experience have taught her. This is literally what frustrates women DAILY, played out on the biggest national stage. This election has reinforced that a guy's ignorance will still be given the same weight as a woman's experience. He can have emotional outbursts that she would be crucified for having. As many problems as I have with her, I recognize that she deserved a more worthy opponent in this election.

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http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/9/27/13075552/presidential-debate-clinton-trump-sexism-double-standard-incompetent-man

[raging moderate]

1. Thank you. This is so true.

This election is bizarre. The GOP have created an alternate universe.

But some elements of it have been with us for a long, long time.

[apcalc]

2. Damn, right.

So revolting that every idiot blowhard gets his due....I'm so done with that.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. So true. I think most women have been there, done that.

[Jade Fox]

4. The visceral response of women.....

watching Trump interrupt and try to bully Clinton cannot be underestimated. Yes, we've all been there.

[VWolf]

5. That last sentence:

"I recognize that she deserved a more worthy opponent in this election"

My wife said the same thing to me yesterday.

Trouble is, I don't think the repubs had any worthy opponents in the primaries.