I’m a woman who stutters, and I totally agree with this. I‘ve always felt as though my thoughts and opinions haven’t been taken as seriously as men for the simple fact that I am a woman, but of course this issue compounds with a stutter. There have been so many times I’ve struggled to convey what I am trying to say in words and where I’ve kept silent or held back due to the fear of not being fluent, and I feel like in either case people will look at me like I’m a dumb blonde with just air in my head. I’ve always felt looked down upon when I try to express an intellectual opinion or something that’s truly evidence-based, and I see the way a man can captivate a room with entirely no effort when he basically paraphrases what I said. It doesn’t help that I’ve also been conventionally “attractive” in my youth, which of course just adds another layer to being stereotyped. I feel like most white cis men walk around without knowing how much opportunity and privilege they are truly awarded by just being born and existing in the skin they are in. Everything is harder for women because of the inherently sexist world we live in, and stuttering is no exception to that