Commenter over at Romenesko re: a McCain spokeswoman wondering why the librul media esp. women, hate Palin.
Radically female body language
Posted by Paul Spinrad 10/8/2008 1:43:16 PM
In humans and other species, tilting the head to one side is a gesture of submissiveness practiced only by females and non-dominant males. For humans, the gesture is disarming and friendly, but not commanding.
Sarah Palin is the first national-level politician of either gender I have seen who uses this gesture. She also winks, and does other typical female body language things. Pelosi doesn't do them, Merkel doesn't, Golda Meir didn't, etc.-- they all "read" like men when they are/were addressing the public.
For this reason, the way Palin reads visually is radically traditionally female, on a sub-verbal level, and maybe that's what people are processing right now.
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