Another interesting comparison is how the two will act when the other candidate is speaking. During Hilary answering of the first question, Trump is seen writing on the notepad, looking around and nodding at the audience, and generally fidgeting before giving his attention to Hilary. Not only is this distracting and disrespectful to his fellow candidate, but also is a citeational act of masculinity. In today’s gendered hierarchy, a lot of times increasing power through masculinity is at the derision of femininity and therefore decreasing its power. Trump uses this tactic by distracting and disrespecting his opponent therefore decreasing Clinton’s power while increasing his own and therefore increasing his masculinity. Trump uses the citeational
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Both candidates use a slow, enunciated, confident tone when answering the question, even though their answers were different. Their vocal qualities both can be seen as a citeational act of masculinity through the confidence and therefore conveying the power and attempting to make the audience be more likely to vote for them. Though because they both perform this citeational act similarly in a very short time span, it is unlikely to cause any effect on the audience. Where they differ in answering the question is the body language that I spoke of, with Hilary performing feminine citeational acts and Trump performing masculine citeational acts. This causes a different effect on the audience. Hilary’s clashing acts again put her in the middle territory of liminality, but also makes her seem a leader and again connects her with motherhood in attempt to appease those uncomfortable with broken gender roles. On the contrary, Trump furthers his connection to manhood with both citeational acts. This tactic of hyper-masculinity he uses over and over again in his campaign in an attempt to seem powerful in a field where he has never had experience. This leads to outright misogyny, which is a citeational act of masculinity and helps devalue Clinton’s campaign. …show more content…
Trump’s acts of repeated acts hyper-masculinity during the debate, and the election as a whole are constantly pulling focus from talking about issues. During the debate for example, his repeated interruptions of Clinton, both show his connections to the male gender and wastes time that could be spent discussing issues that the undecided voters want answered. He accomplished both a citeational act to gain power and distracted from the fact that he knows very little about political issues making people more likely to vote for him. Even Clinton points this out, claiming he was “into big diversion tonight.” Clinton also has this problem, mostly due to the fact that she presents as a woman in a male dominated profession. Much debate time, and election time, is devoted to how she acts as a woman, such as Trump saying, “She didn’t have a presidential look.” They focus on her performance of gender rather than her stance on the issues, leaving her open to sexist criticism and making people less likely to vote for her. Overall the spectacle of the performance of gender is a big distraction that can be used to get votes.
Using Judith Butler’s framework, it can be seen that both Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump’s performance of gender is a tactic to gather support
Both candidates use a slow, enunciated, confident tone when answering the question, even though their answers were different. Their vocal qualities both can be seen as a citeational act of masculinity through the confidence and therefore conveying the power and attempting to make the audience be more likely to vote for them. Though because they both perform this citeational act similarly in a very short time span, it is unlikely to cause any effect on the audience. Where they differ in answering the question is the body language that I spoke of, with Hilary performing feminine citeational acts and Trump performing masculine citeational acts. This causes a different effect on the audience. Hilary’s clashing acts again put her in the middle territory of liminality, but also makes her seem a leader and again connects her with motherhood in attempt to appease those uncomfortable with broken gender roles. On the contrary, Trump furthers his connection to manhood with both citeational acts. This tactic of hyper-masculinity he uses over and over again in his campaign in an attempt to seem powerful in a field where he has never had experience. This leads to outright misogyny, which is a citeational act of masculinity and helps devalue Clinton’s campaign. …show more content…
Trump’s acts of repeated acts hyper-masculinity during the debate, and the election as a whole are constantly pulling focus from talking about issues. During the debate for example, his repeated interruptions of Clinton, both show his connections to the male gender and wastes time that could be spent discussing issues that the undecided voters want answered. He accomplished both a citeational act to gain power and distracted from the fact that he knows very little about political issues making people more likely to vote for him. Even Clinton points this out, claiming he was “into big diversion tonight.” Clinton also has this problem, mostly due to the fact that she presents as a woman in a male dominated profession. Much debate time, and election time, is devoted to how she acts as a woman, such as Trump saying, “She didn’t have a presidential look.” They focus on her performance of gender rather than her stance on the issues, leaving her open to sexist criticism and making people less likely to vote for her. Overall the spectacle of the performance of gender is a big distraction that can be used to get votes.
Using Judith Butler’s framework, it can be seen that both Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump’s performance of gender is a tactic to gather support