We Expect Women to Have Impostor Syndrome. That’s Why We Can’t Handle Hillary Clinton.
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Since impostor syndrome became the workplace anxiety du jour a few years back, women have tried all manner of tricks to boost feelings of self-worth and convince themselves that they deserve every granule of success they achieve. New York Times editor Jazmine Hughes dressed like Cookie from Empire to help her feel like a boss at her new gig. A Harvard Business School professor prescribed “power poses” that boost testosterone. Writer Sarah Hagi has beseeched the heavens to grant her “the confidence of a mediocre white man.”
But wait! Once you’ve got a healthy self-image and are aware of all the strengths that landed you in a well-deserved job, you’re bound to fall into an equally damaging trap at the other end of the confidence spectrum. Women who achieve leadership positions in male-dominated industries are viewed with suspicion, especially when they ask to be compensated in money, power, or autonomy for their accomplishments. In the Huffington Post, Anna Kegler writes that Hillary Clinton and Melissa Harris-Perry demonstrate the pitfalls of competence bias, which holds women to higher standards than men:
While boys are raised to exaggerate their skills, take risks, fall down and pick themselves back up, girls are taught to think things through and second-guess, avoid risk and failure, and not raise their hand unless they’re sure they have the right answer. Lastly, girls absorb from the media that their real value [lies in their appearance], at the same time that boys absorb the message that girls are not to be trusted.
That last bit is particularly relevant in Clinton’s case. The concept of trust has taken on gendered import in the current presidential campaign. Pegging Clinton as an inauthentic, conniving phony with little concrete evidence to support that characterization is, essentially, calling her an impostor. In a Guardian editorial on Monday, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson pointed out that Clinton has the best truth-telling record of any candidate in the race, yet even 40 percent of Democrats think she can’t be trusted.
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For some, it's hard to judge performance if they can't see the performer. 
When the situation dictates, I am a ponderer / "big picture" thinker, but I'm not afraid to take risks (I packed up and moved -- all by my lonesome -- 300 miles away from family & friends for a job with a start up), and I had a manager tell me during a performance review that she liked that I wasn't afraid to jump in with a suggestion or answer even when I was wrong.
I don't have a penis, but some of my best friends do. 
Just not Hillary. She has lied too many times and demonstrated consistently bad judgment on important issues.
we are brainwashed, manipulated and have low self esteem.
Got it.
So...today's meme is "People cant handle a strong woman." (PATRIARCHY!111!!) or at least the bias there of.
Proceed.
represent at this point.
...doesn't mean I think she'd make a good president.
She had to think like a predator and lie down with thieves. I don't admire it.
While it is true that girls are taught to be passive and the glass ceiling is absolutely real--to use this as an excuse for why Hillary is so ethically challenged, is really stretching it.
I get why, but wow, is it laughable the number of excuses y'all have been pulling out of your asses - sexism, male chauvinism, magical thinking in pixie dust and sky fairies who'll send money to finance silly stuff like food and health care ... now some goofy "impostor syndrome" - can't wait for tomorrow's excuse. 
I regard most the women in my life; friends, family, colleagues... to be less "imposter" than the men.
Very trustworthy indeed.
