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I wouldn't celebrate too much. We recently had a female prime minister who was probably the shittest in British history (until her successor). And yet Merkel a
by nprateem 5y ago
I wouldn't celebrate too much. We recently had a female prime minister who was probably the shittest in British history (until her successor).
And yet Merkel and Arden seem great. It's almost like gender isn't the characteristic that marks a good politician after all...
- uxcolumbo 5y agoWhy do you think May and Johnson are incredibly bad at this? Their party's ideology? And that those folks usually can't relate to the normal person on the street? Which results in them not really giving a toss about them or not caring about what it means to cut £20 weekly for people already struggling while we are going into winter with higher energy prices.
- telesilla 5y agoOne of the great things about equality is that women get to be terrible people too, given the same opportunities. We're not some magical race of angels.
- nprateem 5y agoExactly. So shouldn't there be more of a push for a meritocracy instead of this incessant chasing of equal gender ratios?
- oxplot 5y agoDig down enough and all so called merit comes down to luck. And no, we shouldn't push for putting all lucky people in power.
- nprateem 5y agoAh I see. So you'd rather have a random selection of people attempting to do jobs they're not much good at, who are lucky enough to possess certain characteristics. Right...
- arp242 5y agoI've always had the feeling Thatcher was overcompensating for being a woman by being "the tough guy". It worked, too; in the early days of the Clinton presidency Hillary – already more than ten years after Thatcher got elected – famously got asked for a cookie recipe. No one would have dared ask Maggie for her cookie recipes (but have Dennis had some?) It's understandable to some degree, but in such a position it has real consequences for people.