A broad question on the dynamics of a female candidacy

There seems to be a growing consensus that one of the dynamics of a Hillary Clinton election campaign is whether and how she will be able to project "strength," and all of this discussion seems centered around a rather limited male "punching each other in the arm" sort of interpretation of power, but I want to offer another possibility.

The male female dynamic does allow a different type of power display, a kind of an emasculating condescension reached by a woman treating a man as a little boy. It displays an assumed strength, and properly deployed leaves the male target with no response but attack and aggression.

I don't really know how to put it into words, and it would be a difficult jiujitsu to pull off, but it could also be very powerful. Instead of responding to the shrill with shrill, pat Rudy Giuliani on the head and tell him that he's a good little boy, but he doesn't really doesn't understand what he's talking about.

(Does that make sense? I've been thinking about this for months, but haven't really figured out how to express it right.)