What if Trump and Clinton switched genders?

Someone actually trained up actors to find out!  And the results are surprising, though in retrospect not surprising.  Most people predict in advance that a woman wouldn’t be able to get away with Trump’s behaviour, and that a male Clinton would breeze to success.  But instead the female Trump is kind of appealing and the male Clinton isn’t.  However, a bit more reflection makes this not so shocking: a man behaving like Clinton is displaying some stereotypically feminised behaviours, and a woman behaving like Trump is displaying masculine ones.  And which do we valorise more?

 

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