When disturbed by a question, she usually replies, “Would you have asked the same question to a man?” Ever since Laurent Fabius took a hit in the polls when he mocked her candidacy by asking, “Who will mind the children?”, her opponents have feared appearing misogynous when attacking her, and when they do criticize her, she immediately assumes the pose of innocent victim, unfairly bashed by schoolboy bullies.
而且，作为一个女人是一大优势。当有人给她提出难堪的问题时，她会回答说：“你会问一个男人同样的问题吗？”法比尤斯挖苦地问她说：“孩子们谁来照顾？”法比尤斯由此在民意中大跌。从此，她的对手们在攻击她的时候就害怕显得是厌恶女人的人。而当他们确实批评她的时候，她就马上显得是一个无辜的受害者，被学校男孩子不公平地欺负。