Twitter Has Field Day with Ridiculous GOP (and Mainstream Media) Pearl-Clutching at Discovery That Women — Like Men — Can Develop Pneumonia

1. If you want to know what's wrong with media coverage in 2016, read this paragraph https://t.co/LJ6cr0VoGV pic.twitter.com/u7sCd00nur

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 11, 2016

A prominent Reformed pastor constantly refers to my "fainting couch" when criticizing me. So don't tell me this HRC reaction isn't gendered.

— Rachel Held Evans (@rachelheldevans) September 11, 2016

I'll take a candidate with treatable pneumonia over one with incurable xenophobia any day. #mepolitics #p2 #UniteBlue #ImWithHer

— Bruce Bourgoine (@BruceBourgoine) September 11, 2016

When Hillary Clinton vomits on Prime Minister of Japan & then slides under the table after fainting, get back to me pic.twitter.com/Hp6sd0e4wN

— (((Picasso Kat))) (@Picassokat) September 11, 2016

Men seen as resilient: GWB chokes on pretzel&faints. Cheney has heart surgeries.

Women seen as fragile& so HRC story covered differently

— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) September 11, 2016

Doing events with pneumonia shows how strong Hillary is. Her detractors have now lost another one of their hit jobs. They should be ashamed.

— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) September 11, 2016

This is the first time Republicans have cared about a woman's health.

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) September 11, 2016

This is just embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/Ok8ssLGB6r

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) September 11, 2016

Voter: "I was gonna vote for Hillary, but she got pneumonia and dehydrated...so it's the xenophobic racist con-man for me!"

— Daniel Aubry (@Aubs89) September 11, 2016

General Petraeus fainting at a hearing on Afg. Hillary, our next President, is a warhorse. #Hillary'sHealth pic.twitter.com/mreuYC5jyO

— Molly (@Plantflowes) September 11, 2016

This from the guy who jacked up the price of a pharmaceutical by more than 5000 percent. https://t.co/BVeqbhBpQT

— Catholic Democrats (@CatholicDems) September 11, 2016

Pneumonia is treatable. Borderline personality disorder and total narcissism take much longer to cure.

#HillarysHealth

— Jessica Sisak (@jaylsisak) September 11, 2016

Pneumonia punditry is the the best punditry.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 11, 2016