This diary was sufficiently misunderstood and caused so much upset that I removed it. So as not to make the comments completely unintelligible, here's the point I was trying (not very successfully, apparently) to make: The pop cultural changes that led to the emergence of female action heroes in the 1990s (example: Buffy/Xena) will play out in such a way as to lead to a different kind of female politician in the 2010s. The new intelligibility of woman-as-hero in the culture will allow these women to take advantage of the JFK hero-20-years-later model, using some story of 1990s heroism the way Kerry or McCain have used their Vietnam stories. For men, such a story gives a middle-aged or even elderly candidate an aura of youthfulness, and it will do the same for women. The youthful-hero-turned-middle-aged-leader female candidates will project an aura of the archetypal Daughter, which will let them slip past the male resistance to power-seeking from candidates who relate through the Wife or Mother archetypes.