Democratic presidential candidate says she is aware she comes off as 'cold and unemotional' but that 'it can be more difficult for a woman'
The caption with the picture on HONY had her hark back to the time when she was heckled as a law student at Harvard
The caption with the picture on HONY had her hark back to the time when she was heckled as a law student at Harvard
New York: Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has faced criticism for being aloof, told Humans of New York, a popular photoblog, that she is aware she can be perceived as "cold or unemotional" and is not like President Barack Obama and her husband Bill Clinton with an "appealing" naturalness.
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"I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional. But I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. And that's a hard path to walk," Clinton explained.
She cited an "intense" incident of how she was heckled by men during a law school admissions test in Harvard. She said she was among only a handful of women in the room when a group of men "began to yell things like: 'You don't need to be here.' and one of them even said: 'If you take my spot, I'll get drafted, and I'll go to Vietnam, and I'll die'."
Clinton said that she takes responsibility for creating the perception of being walled off but she is not cold or unemotional. "I don't view myself as cold or unemotional. And neither do my friends. And neither does my family. But if that sometimes is the perception I create, then I can't blame people for thinking that," she said.
In another post, Clinton said she is not like Obama and her husband Bill Clinton.
"I'm not Barack Obama. I'm not Bill Clinton. Both of them carry themselves with a naturalness that is very appealing to audiences. But I'm married to one and I've worked for the other, so I know how hard they work at being natural. It's not something they just dial in," she said, adding that both the US presidents work and practice what they are going to say.
"You have to communicate in a way that people say: 'OK, I get her.' And that can be more difficult for a woman," she said. Clinton said women running for the Senate or Presidency have fewer women to look up to since most of the role models are men.
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