Smile!

I’m sitting at home watching the Democratic National Convention tonight, listening to Hillary’s acceptance speech while trying to anticipate all the things she’s going to get criticized for. The very first thing that comes to mind: that she’s not smiling enough.

It’s a woman’s traditional role, right, to be pleasant and agreeable, and therefore we’re expected to smile and to serve. She certainly has served the American people quite well in her lifetime, but I know for a fact that tomorrow, when I start reading articles or scroll my Twitter feed to see comments on her speech, her lack of smiling (except at the end) will be commented on negatively by a bunch of idiot men out there. While it’s exciting to have the glass ceiling broken in having the first woman being nominated for a major political party in this country, it makes me want to grind my teeth thinking about how even more intensely scrutinized she will be for being the first.

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