It's not sexist to say that Sanders looks very angry most of the time, because she does. There are Republican men that don't look pleasant or look older than they really are (like Stephen Miller).
No. It's very sexist to call the White House Press Secretary ugly when that kind of criticism would never be levied against a man serving in the same position.
Why are women in powerful positions only able to be judged based on their appearance?
She wasn't called ugly, and anyone who dislikes the Press Secretary (myself included) has a hell of a lot of things to judge her for other than appearance. You're just engaging in the same type of annoying "sexist" smearing and identity politics found in the Democratic Party and it's embarrassing
If there are credible ways to criticize her that don't include her appearance, then please do so. To say she "looks old" and "never smiles" is sexist. Are any male members of Trump's administration attacked in the same way? Stephen Miller, for instance, certainly isn't.
Professional women have worked long and hard to be judged based on something other than appearances. Let's avoid the obvious low-hanging fruit and judge them the same way we judge professional men.
This is a legitimate issue, and it's important to call-out the double standards liberal pundits and media employ when discussing SHS (or Kellyanne Conway, Betsy DeVos, and other conservative women). Remember when LA Times columnist David Horsey said she looked like a "chunky soccer mom"? Or Chelsea Handler calling her a "harlot"? Or Brian Karem asked if she had ever been a personal victim of sexual assault? When has similar criticism ever been unfairly applied towards men?
Sarah Sanders has frequently and brazenly lied on numerous occasions (often contradicting the President himself), repeated debunked claims, and overall is the spokeswoman for a corrupt presidential administration so pardon me if I don't have too many positive things to say about her. If anyone wants to attack male members of Trump's administration (or anyone) based on appearance, they can go ahead and do so, and they often do. Trump himself, for example, is frequently mocked for his ridiculous hairstyle. Not that it matters anyway, because critiquing appearance is ultimately nothing more than an ad hominem attack meant to distract from actual substantive policy discussion. This is true regardless if it is a man or a woman.
In the standards of fairness though, I'll just say that I don't have any more of a problem with liberal women (or men) being criticised over appearance than I do with conservative women (or men).
