Women arn’t up to being world leaders
Posted by qmonkey on May 6, 2008
BBC Newsnight are running a weekly feature visiting various families in a little Virginian town called Culpepper. It will follow their views and opinion on the run-up to November’s US Elections.
It’s not the most interesting thing in the world, I must be honest but one thing did strike me. One of the ladies, a democrat, was asked if she would vote for Hillary Clinton. She replied that she probably wouldn’t because she thinks that it’s a job that requires a man, simple as that. She continued that there are just some jobs and decisions that she would rather see a man making.
It’s important to understand that this woman wasn’t a weak and submissive bonnet wearing 50s throwback, she was a smart professional go-getter. On further investigation they found this 
view to be not unrepresentative. I was very surprised, but then it hit me… they never had Mrs Thatcher. I just can’t imagine even the most misogynistic Briton or even European saying those things and the reason is surely Thatcher. It’s a whorey old cliché, but the best thing she ever did for women was becoming PM and then being a war-mongering tough-talking union-bashing battle-axe. No women in this country ever need to worry about being labelled weak and emotional just because of their sex… or at least you’d think.
January 16, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Oh Mr Q Monkey where to begin?
Women are labelled as weak and emotional all the time, they are labelled as many other often derogatory things: you my learned friend have fallen into the trap of masculine mysogyny: that of the OVERgeneralisation!
Thatcher is an easy woman to politically disagree with; I agree that she raised the political profile for British women but I still see the chamber of the Commons lined with middle-aged, middle-class, white males (and the halls of Stormont are only marginally better).
A women US President could help free women from the shackles of male opression across the Western World; especially if she stood on her own stilletto clad feet instead of clinging to King Bill (she could distract him with a cigar). She needs to show the women of Culpepper, not only can women lead but they can do with a humanity and a compassion entirely empty from today’s US politics.
And ’speaking’ of shackles, an African American Muslim US President could shape democracy for a waiting world… I’m torn, but then I’m a weak and emotional female, chained to her hormones and escaped from the kitchen sink…
March 19, 2008 at 6:05 pm
all was well back in the 50’s. Coke-a-cola was only 10 cents a bottle.
ufo’s were the talk of the town.