You're pretending people are mocking Mrs Segolène Royal because she's a woman, well, I don't think it has any chances to be true. It's IMHO a reason for many people to be addicted to her without even thinking to listen to what she says.

I've listened to many of her interviews, those are pathetically void and empty. She's not able to use correct and decent French, and when I listen to her, I'm often under the impression to talk to my butcher. If I imagine her in the middle of an internationnal summit, I'm just plain afraid. When I try to sum up her ideas, I come up with a big nothing. That's just air and wind.

I can't say the UMP is very kind with her but hey, she's a candidate to the presidency, she should grow a skin, chose a real communication manager (Montebourg, BWAHAHAHAHAHA), etc… Recently, presidency candidacy has begun to look like a show. She's making pirouettes over pirouettes. How can you blame other candidates to just push her a bit so that she fall on the nose ? That is indeed unfair, but:

  • it has nothing to do with the fact that she is a woman, that's a very very very bad argument, to me it's even in her disfavour, because it looks like that: « look it's only a woman, please be kind with here » WTF? if she's going to be the French President she has to be a bit stronger than that, and beeing a woman or not is totally irrelevant ;
  • I'm not sure she really needs to be pushed hard to fall, her campaign (atm) is a long succession of "rattrapage aux branches".

So I'm under the impression that you defend her because she's a woman, which is certainly a way for chosing your favourite candidate, but it's not in my criterion list (neither as a pro or a cons) for such an election. And I'm not that sure she won't attend to the second turn. The "She's a woman" criterion will weigh on the election in a way that we didn't met before, and that is very hard to estimate.