Every critique of Hillary Clinton is not sexist

What Rebecca Traister gets wrong about a terrible candidate

Hillary Clinton.
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Hillary Clinton is angry. She's angry at the media. She's angry at Donald Trump. She's angry at Bernie Sanders. New York magazine's Rebecca Traister is angry, too — but mostly at us, for not letting Hillary Clinton rage.

Last week, Traister wrote a piece highlighting the role Clinton's anger, or rather her inability to show it, played in both her 2016 defeat and the negative reviews of her new memoir, What Happened. Traister argues that because Hillary is a woman, she was uniquely tone-policed in a way that inhibited her ability to connect with voters. Yet despite Traister's insistence that critiques of Clinton and her memoir are actually rooted in sexism, it's apparent that, once again, identity is simply being leveraged to distract from legitimate critiques of the candidate.

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Briahna Joy Gray is a lawyer and co-host of SWOTI Podcast whose writing has appeared in Current Affairs and Paste Magazine. Follow her on Twitter.