I have to disagree with you Mikael.

See Ed Muskie for an example of a man being "empathetic" and getting BLISTERED for it. He wasn't the strongest candidate to begin with but his whole campaign went down the tubes the moment he started crying and political historians will tell you exactly that.

A more recent example was when Hillary first ran for the Senate. She was debating Rich Lazio who had the unmitigated gall to actually move about the stage. The press ran with it the next day saying Lazio was "intimidating the poor woman" and the rest is history. So Lazio, a MAN,trying to be energetic and passionate was interpreted as "aggressive" in a BAD WAY!!!! And ironically the only reason he was "aggressive" was because he was debating a WOMAN. Had it been another man there would not have been a word said about it.

Do women get stereotyped? Sure they do.

BUT so do men!!!

Also it is the FEMINISTS (not just I)who are saying that Hillary won in NH because WOMEN were mad about the men bullying her. Given that the men are NOT bullying her, THAT is entirely different than tapping into genuine emotion that the voters feel.

You know one of my criteria for voting for any candidate is that they don't tell us how STRONG they are while complaining about how WEAK they are.