By Hans Vogel for the Saker blog
Do you remember Margaret Thatcher? And Indira Gandhi? Have you ever heard of Golda Meir? All three were “Iron Ladies” who as leaders of their countries and staunch defenders of national interests, truly made a difference. One may or may not agree with their political philosophies and opinions, but there is no denying these women were truly great politicians, outshining even most of their male contemporaries.
Today there are seventeen countries where women lead governments. These include France, Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Serbia, Iceland, New Zealand, Bangla Desh and Nepal. The president of the European Commission, Mrs. Ursula von der Leyen, also belongs in this list. In addition, there are fifteen countries where a woman is president.
Of today’s female politicians, perhaps only Cristina Fernandez of Argentina is made of the same stuff as her illustrious predecessors Thatcher, Meir and Mrs. Gandhi. Her actual stature might have been comparable if her country carried more weight in the world political arena. An influence comparable to that of Germany, until its imposition of suicidal economic policies earlier this year. Angela Merkel, the woman who presided over Germany’s fate for over sixteen years, had already done her best to destroy the social fabric of her country by opening the gates to millions of young single male foreigners who nurtured not an ounce of respect or sympathy for the nation that welcomed them with open arms. In other words, although “das Merkel” (as her many detractors liked to call her) might, on account of her long reign and her grip on German politics be considered a peer to Thatcher, Gandhi and Meir, she has gloriously forsaken her duties. Even if she is not Germany’s actual butcher, Merkel has prepared her country for slaughter. The master butcher currently presiding over the killing of Germany is the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, a man.
But rest assured, half of his cabinet are women. Some of the most pernicious, moronic and incompetent of these women have been put in charge of key ministries. Annalena Baerbock is Minister of Foreign Affairs and as such has been making public utterances that in terms of ignorance and sheer stupidity rival those of her British counterpart Liz Truss, who just a few days ago was anointed Prime Minister. The Interior Ministry is headed by one Nancy Faeser, hardly less incompetent than la Baerbock, while the Defense Department is led by Christine Lambrecht who, as befits a woman put in charge of national defense, knows absolutely nothing about military affairs. Incidentally, her colleague in The Netherlands, Mrs. Kajsa Ollongren is at the same level of ignorance. Even after having been made head of defense, she could not tell the difference between a major and a sergeant major.
Of course, in order to be a cabinet minister, one does not need to have a detailed knowledge of everything upon which that ministry touches, but a smattering of knowledge and some basic intellectual capabilities do come in handy, even if to inspire confidence among the public. What the appallingly low levels of competence among most of today’s government ministers indicate, is that ministers in modern governments are no more than figureheads. Interchangeable heads who just need to put signatures on dotted lines, smile at photographers, answer simple, prepared questions and travel around a bit to give the impression they are actually doing something. That is precisely why so many ignoramuses (m/f) are being appointed to high government posts. It is not they who make the real decisions.
That is done by high public officials, big business, banks, NGOs, international organizations like the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum and by the occasional non-elected body such as the European Commission. Most of these entities are led by men and only very few of these entities have a male/female parity in their boards and executive bodies. That is precisely why so often women are made government ministers: it makes no difference for the way affairs are run, but it looks so nice in the eyes of a gullible public.
For those who demand equal opportunity for women (going all the way to numerical parity in high-paid, prestige jobs, but never for garbage crews), politics is a choice area for the achievement of their goals. Since it does not matter if a government minister is competent and knowledgeable, job openings at that level can easily be filled with cronies (m/f) and stooges (m/f). As a general rule it may be stated that across the board, politicians are less competent than their counterparts outside government. This is most evident in areas where expertise truly counts, where major interests are at stake and where big profits are made
Currently, men and women are in parity in the European Commission, the Dutch government, and also in France, Germany and Portugal. Women enjoy a majority in the governments of Belgium, Spain and Sweden. We can be certain that militant feminists and equal rights zealots will not object to the female majority in those cabinets even if it would be, according to their philosophy, unjust. To men, of course. On the other hand, those very same feminists will certainly make strong objections to the composition of the governments of Romania (twenty-three men, one woman), Poland (twenty-one men, one woman) and Hungary (fourteen men, one woman).
Curiously enough, the cabinet composition in Hungary, Poland and Romania is not very far removed from that of the World Health Organization, which claims to watch over the health of the entire world population. The God-like WHO seems perfectly at ease with its serious discrimination against women. On its Executive Board, men outnumber women by more than four to one. However, so far I have heard no complaints about this situation.
As a matter of fact, many of the most powerful and influential entities in the world do not aim for equal representation of men and women in their boardrooms. Besides the fact that they are very rarely led by a woman, gender inequality is what sets them apart from the most “advanced” governments in Europe.
Overall, the world of finance, comprising banking, insurance, asset management and other financial services, knows no gender equality at the highest levels. The same goes for pharmaceuticals and high tech firms. Exemplary egalitarian businesses in these branches include Allianz and Zurich (both insurance), Microsoft and Pfizer. These firms can proudly exhibit boards that are half male and half female.
Other giants in these fields have a male/female representation at the top levels ranging between 4:1 and 2:1. Blackrock, the world’s premier asset management firm, has 2:1, runners-up Vanguard and Charles Schwab have 3:1. Together with his son, that great self-proclaimed humanitarian, George Soros leads the Open Society Foundation, while on its Global Board the ratio is 2:1, again in favor of men. One would have expected that an organization that prides itself on promoting a more just and a more equal world would have made sure that—at least for PR reasons—its board would have equal representation.
The same goes for the World Economic Forum. Using every opportunity to bother the rest of us with their ill-thought out projects and snippets of cruel lunacy, it is as dominated by males as most of the financial world, which is actually its core business. Governed by Klaus Schwab, his son and daughter, men outnumber women by two to one on its Board of Trustees, the Managing Board and the Executive Committee. Even the Biden Administration has attained equality, with twelve men and twelve women. Thus one might ask what is keeping the WHO, the WEF, Blackrock and other outfits from following this laudable example?
Perhaps in organizations where cold hard figures are paramount, it is unfeasible to apply fashionable equality norms. That be might be why the Bank of International Settlements at Basel, the central bank of Central Banks and the most powerful financial entity in the world, has less than six percent women on its board: one out of eighteen. The very fact that, ultimately, money is more important than male-female parity, is the best explanation for the absence of a public outcry against the underrepresentation of women in the world of finance and real power and influence.
In this respect it may be worthwhile to recall the French feminist scholar, Evelyne Sullerot (1924-2017), who formulated a “law” to the effect that when women become a majority in a vocation or profession, prestige and salary will be lower than when men were a majority.
As anybody with a half brain knows, anything men can do, women can do as well, and some indeed better. History is replete with both talented and highly capable women and men. The same goes for “minorities,” be they racial or constructed on the basis of modern gender lunacy. However, to demand and even impose “equality” by means of special legislation is the height of folly. It will only carry the wrong kind of people to high-paid jobs and high government office.
Incompetent women, for instance, like the Dutch finance minster, Mrs. Sigrid Kaag. As a faithful associate of the WEF, she is dutifully carrying out whatever Klaus Schwab has ordered. Since she is apparently also a psychopath (certainly no rarity among politicians and CEOs), she does not care about the widespread destruction, misery and poverty she is causing. Now that desperate citizens are giving her and her family a hard time, with some even shouting threats, Mrs. Kaag has declared this is in fact caused by one of the opposition parties in parliament. I am sure that Indira Gandhi would never have said something stupid like that. But apparently, la Kaag is incapable of understanding the effect that her policies are having, nor can she bear the consequences of her actions.
The only answer Mrs. Kaag deserves is the saying “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!”
Actually she might better in her place in the kitchen, doing something constructive and useful, like preparing a meal for her family, or for the soup kitchens that she is forcing so many of her fellow citizens to resort to…
Merkel shakes uncontrollably during military parade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO0cbTRYZK8
May be she has some neurological disease like one of her predecessors.
Aside from disease, emotional build up from stress overload can lead to hysteria and it’s physical symptoms. It looks obvious in the video.
Don’t forget the word “ hysteria “ comes from the Ancient Greek word for womb!
Zelensky whispered to her she looks just like her father without the mustache.
I think it is Adderall overdoes like Hillary “Keglegs” Clinton.
I always liked the one glove solution to a problem, its so easy to sell and by the time it doesn’t work, the moneys been spent and its long been forgotten about.
“…, but never for garbage crews.” …that was good
For 30 years we have been hearing year after year, that “the ‘scissors’ between rich and poor are widening”. And they say also, that this is a problem that must be taken seriously.
For about 15 years, one profession has been achieving almost dizzying growth rates – that of the “equal opportunity commissioner”.
Piquantly, the above-mentioned phenomenon has been removed from the jurisdiction of this supporting pillar of the “liberal order” …
A strong woman can be stronger than an average man, but never as strong as a strong man. That’s because women are physically and neurologically optimized for the extremely important work of childbirth and raising young children through the long human maturity arc.
Men cannot do the critical part of this work. No gender parity can be reached here.
Men and women are not, on the whole, fungible and interchangeable, as much as the left would like them to be. A few exceptions do not make a rule.
Reality is a cruel teacher to fools her ignore her.
Indeed, Bob, so true. I estimate, completely unempirically but for the effect of the argument, that a woman capable of running a country or other serious enterprise is one-in-ten billion. While the percentage of men capable of these positions is about one-in-fifty million.
Once the dust from the current World War settles it will be very hard to be a women or gay. Both have been placed on positions of power based on the fact that they can be easily manipulated and not because of their merits.
Serbia is hit with a double whammy: the thing Serbia has for Prime Minister is both a women and gay which together with the fact it has a ball-less and corrupt criminal for President has resulted in a catastrophic economic and political situation.
your argument is precise, perfect. The proof that the West has no solution, no cure, is that we see everywhere and even here on the blog the wrong feminist mentality. The high number of women in male positions in the west, IS THE SIGN that the west is in complete decline. Perhaps it is the strongest signal. And Margaret Thatcher did great harm to England. Appearances are deceiving!
I was stunned to read that Cristina Kirchner is a statesman at the level of the late Margaret Thatcher according to the author Hans Vogel…wow.
Cristina is the ectoplasm of her late husband Nestor Kirchner (who died in 2010), a nefarious, corrupt and ineffective politician who let Argentina’s energy independence slip by blocking the development of Vaca Muerta (the largest gas field in the Western Hemisphere) due to his incompetence. . 12 years later the construction works begin.
Cristina Kirchner does not know or answer for the “montoneros” (leftist terrorists of the 70’s) installed in her government (2007-2015) criminals responsible for more than 7500 murders at the end of the 70’s. Or Luis Labraña, Montonero, who invented the figure of 30,000 disappeared (the real number of disappeared recognized by him is more than 4,000) to get more money at the expense of the truth. (see interview August 13, 2021) Enough of manipulating them.
I am truly stunned that you would equate the late Iron Bitch to CFK!
The former threatened to nuke Buenos Aires if the Frenchies didn’t hand over the disarm code for their Exocet missiles during the Malvinas War! Such a wonderful lady . . .
The latter will go down in history as greater than Evita!
I think I woke up to the idea of controlled opposition when it was publicized that Gloria Steinem was dating Henry Kissinger. :-))
Thanks for reminding me of that!!
At the time I don’t think I knew of the term “controlled opposition.”
It just seemed like Steinem had arrived at the heights of High Society.
Of course the fact that both are Jewish is also of some interest.
Steinem’s father was Jewish, and she states that a rabbi had a huge effect on her growth.
In todays world, particularly in western europe and north america, one has to question whether these “women” in positions of power, authority, fame, etc. are actually women or are they men living their lives as women. Possibilities include jacinda ardern. christine lagarde, liz truss, ursula von der leyen, michelle obama, megan fox and on and on and on. Anyway, that is my take on part of the insanity which appears to be gripping todays world.
One must be careful not to impugn half of humanity. What is apparent is that the Occident caved in to tokenism in place of merit and rated on ability. In certain disciplines, a male ability to take risks and make instant decisions albeit based in instinct is distinctly advantageous, the fairer sex are not so blessed in this capability and that’s just fact. In all else I’m told they beat the men and hands down.
At this stage of the game it matters very little as to who’s in charge of the light on matter and substance brigade.
Nuland said ‘F*ck the EU, meant it, and yet, all of the aforementioned females (and Eura-prick males) fawn over her as spokesperson for Uncle Scam’s Genocidal Foreign Policy. For proof of this, Baerbock, who attended a CIA green finishing school, stood up recently and said ‘screw German workers, I’m with America/Ukraine.
Just OT. I think the auntie from Sweden, one of the important European green terrorist, just lost election.With winning party being natives sw demokrats., Neo-nazis, at least it is how media and propaganda have been calling them for years.
Really wonder how Ms Sanna Marin of Findland, the dirty dancing queen od Abba, without her auntie, will be negotiating with Uncle Erdo, the Sultan.
I dont Funland, but Sweden has really been destroyed by green terrorist and trough progressive liberal morons with their deviant laws, quotas and norms.
Don’t knock it. CFK, as she is commonly known in Argentina, is singlehandedly waging a war against the entire corrupt judicial/media/intel/1% mafia that controls Argentina.
She was almost killed by a very coordinated assassination attempt on Sept. 1.
If she didn’t do what she did in 2019 to “remove herself” from the president candidacy, Argentina may still be in the hands of the American bitch, Macri. Instead of $44 Billion that Macri left to several generations of Argentinos, it might be double or triple that amount. And God knows how many more would have died if he was in power. Just look at the dismal death rates in Brazil under that other American bitch.
ALL the false corruption accusations against CFK could sink many male leaders in the West. She not only persevered thru it all, she is now the Vice-Presidenta of Argentina! Who knows, maybe in 2023 she might step into the arena once again.
For those who read Spanish or can use google translator, here is her fascinating story . . . from a poor law student to the Presidenta and beyond!
http://library.lol/main/B9545BA80A3153E211F3D16C7FCD254D (PDF, 7 Mb)
http://library.lol/main/4F1B3F22175A88E15D20AC03317E6725 (EPUB, 452 kb)
Ah, time for a song
https://youtu.be/sxR-1mZem8Q
like most women, Cristina came through a man from her husband. It is valuable that Cristina is together with great forces of the Argentine left fighting against the Smiling Saxon Empire.
Rare does the IQ gape between men and women surface in these discussions.
According to the British Journal of Psychology, Fall 2005 edition, there are three
men for every woman scoring above 130 and more than five men per woman
above 145 IQ.
I Q tests do not ascertain intelligence but only one’s ability to complete the test.
Absolutely not. If it was the case, the IQ tests would be meaningless. But how funny it is that the ones succeeding the most in these tests are the same ones who are able to abstracly reflect and enter difficult studies like maths and sciences.
The reason for that is very simple. The IQ Gauss curves for men and women are different. Even though the average value is the same, there are more women around the average, and more men at the extremes of the curves. In other words, there are more geniuses in men’s population, but also brain dead idiots. The more in the extremes, the bigger the ratio m/w. Similarly the closer to average, the bigger the ratio w/m.
It could be for the adaptative reason that it optimizes the percentage of women who are intellectually able to raise children. In the same way it optimizes the percentage of men who are able to take the responsibility of groups of people, and protect efficiently the women who raise children.
Why does Asia act out of mericrotacy and the West puts women and gays in office to say they make democracy? Because the west is blind, ignorant, it has forgotten the foundations, the pillars. In the US and Europe men are becoming feminine and women masculine. I don’t give up who I really am.
Feminism has destroyed Western Civilization. We just haven’t fully realized it yet.
The Strategists, not soft, but properly educated were here really outraged. Persian drones serving in RU army? This is from Intel Slava, today.
….In Nikopol, several greetings from Iranian comrades arrived at the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. All this transparently hints that the localized Iranian kamikaze UAVs have gone into action.
Certain comradem from your actual crucial ally said something like, it is no important whether the cat is black or white, impotant is whether he catches mouses….
The problem is often “female solidarity”. Many of those women are very good at playing that card in order to get or keep a job. It enables them to stop any discussion about competence even before it starts.
Ok so some of the enlightened servant organizations that work for the almost exclusively male banksters who really call the shots have equal parts male and female. But what about the other 72 genders, don’t they get a say so?
National interests for who! Certainty not working people especially when it comes to people like Margaret Thatcher who destroyed her public infrastructure and allowed the dominance of the global marketplace in search of cheap labor and profit and spitting on the national interests of her own working people, then on top of that west to war to win an election!
One reason we are in a global clash now fighting neoliberal neocon excrement!
Poor Merkel. She spent the first half of her life destroying East Germany as a commited communist and the second bringing Cultural Marxsim to a unified Germany. The Germans are now so brainwashed they didn’t even see it coming.
What I see, whether men or women, is the low level of leaders in the world today (with rare exceptions). Few authorities have the courage to face the real problems and act to solve them. We pass decades and problems like housing, food, unemployment, security, health and education remain, postponing them to the next in charge. It is really a disaster.
I’m in agreement with St. John Chrysostom, if they would learn anything at all, they should ask there husbands at home.
Most of these, if not all of these, women are WEF. They pushed the vaxes and lockdowns hard too. WEF is pure evil and Schwab’s dad was a nazi.
The gender parity of people who seem idiotic is nothing more than narcissistic sociopaths cut of the same mid-mind cloth. The narcissist is always doomed to failure. Their whole game is trying to make people think they are successful hence the western societies insistence of BS over results. The psychiatric manuals state that there is no outside cure for narcissism which leads me to believe that they are evil. The only way to cure that is to forsake their evil ways.
Speaking as an objective professional woman I can tell you first hand that the reason you see all these women in high positions is because women are followers and consensus builders. The people in real power are likely men behind the scenes guiding the strategy. These women will never challenge the status quo or risk anything at all so expect more of the same for a long time until this generation dies out and a new generation (of men) rebels.
Well said.
I wish to deny that Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir were great leaders. They were all boldly ruthless in that ‘ being more male than a man’ catagory. As for vision, benignity and mercy which mark the truely great (as our beloved Putin shows) they were notably lacking. Thatcher destroyed the possibilities for the working class; Golda forwarded the Beast.
Show me a country with a large percentage of women in government positions, and I’ll show you a country that isn’t long from collapse or being taken over by another country governed by men. Strong nationalist women leaders are the exception, not the norm. it runs counter to the way women’s brains are wired. Most women base their decisions no their feelings; Their “heart”. That is no way to run a government. Many women in a nation’s government tells you allot about the men of that country too. They are cucks and soy-boys. They have grown soft, and are willing to be governed by women. They have abandoned the roles God has ordained for them, so that something completely unnatural arises. This is the fate of the west. Every election, more and more women are gaining seats in governmental positions in the USA. Homosexuals too. This is unprecedented in all of history. It will not end well for the west.
Angela Merkel compelled German women to welcome the invaders masquerading as immigrants with open thighs.
I don’t believe they had to be forced. From what I understand about allot of German women, they will spread their legs for anybody. Consider when the French sent in colonial troops {African troops} to occupy the Saar and Rhine valley after WW1. The Wiemar government counted over 100k children of mixed race born out of wedlock, and they know that number from the welfare claims. How many more were there, you can be sure many girls/women didn’t report or file for welfare benefits for the child out of shame. Then there were all the German women that would relentlessly haunt the US GI nightclubs. I was told this by another US vet: The German girls/women would go straight for black US servicemen because they knew three things. 1. More often than not, the black soldier was not married or engaged already. 2. Black servicemen were easier for them to control. 3. The black serviceman was more eager to marry. The German women used them to get US citizenship, and into the US. Once in the US, and being citizens, they had no further use for their black husband, and promptly divorced him. The white guy in the US she would meet and marry later would be none the wiser of the whole thing {provided there was no child}. Other than a one night stand, if I were a young man today, I would not be interested at all in any meaningful relationship with a western European girl/woman. Now an eastern European woman, that’s a different story…….
These insipid women and the men who appointed them will all swing from lamp posts….
Wonderful handling of an oh so delicate subject. Thank you for your sacrifice. If you wish to draw attention to pure stupid I recommend a review of Canada’s ruling Liberals. The two most competent women were run out on a pole several years ago for refusing to be dolts for the supreme dolt Justin Trudeau, leaving only scraps to chose from going forward. Start with Chrystia Freeland a classic WEF progeny. No qualifications but somehow elevated to Deputy Dolt.
“ll three were “Iron Ladies” who as leaders of their countries and staunch defenders of national interests, truly made a difference. One may or may not agree with their political philosophies and opinions, but there is no denying these women were truly great politicians”
there is a lot of denying, actually. most of it objective fact to anyone but the neoliberal/neocon “people” who write and agree with garbage like this. “derpa derp wikipedia said these ladies did stuff good for them derp rapefugees omg” would have summarized the first few paragraphs but okay. gotta hit that word count.
thatcher was a less feminine ronald reagan who stared with dead soulless eyes while gutting her country and setting up the FIRE sector takeover in her partition of the west. golda meir was ayn rand’s lost sister who presided over the establishment of kahaneistan (aka “israel”) and all the ethnic cleansing and colonialism that went with it. she saw some people with land she wanted, came up with stupid excuses to take that land and then partied like it was 1899 and she was killin’ arab injuns with john wayne’s support. gandhi…meh. typical authoritarian out of their depth but at least she kept her issues within her own country (depending on how “not india” pakistan was after 1971).
i would have taken this a little more seriously if it wasn’t a goofy mixed of nth generation “can’t beat ’em join ’em” feminism with scum right race whining. or if you mentioned jiang qing at the start.
Esse artigo me deixou com a estranha sensação de que meu pai estava certo quando dizia que lugar de mulher é na cozinha ou cuidando dos filhos…
O humorista brasileiro Juca Chaves tinha uma piada:
“Mulher só pode dizer três coisas: xô xô galinha, não faça isso menino, acuda vizinho que meu marido está me matando”…
Não sei como fica a tradução horrivel do Google mas, em português “BR” é muito engraçado.
Tradução Google:
This article left me with the strange feeling that my father was right when he said that a woman’s place is in the kitchen or taking care of the children…
Brazilian comedian Juca Chaves had a joke:
“Woman can only say three things: shoo shoo chicken, don’t do that boy, help neighbor my husband is killing me”…
I don’t know how the horrible translation of Google is, but in Portuguese “BR” is very funny.
:-)
Otherwise, I wouldn’t give up Maria Zakharova!
:-)
Women are ready to go to the Nukes so they don’t look weak.
Corruption, deception, and sociopathy are not gender-specific.
It has nothing to do with feminist woke, but is all about biology. Due to the biology of semen and eggs, and their different role and transmission in procreation, what for males are territories, for females are nests. Territories are negotiable, nests are not. For this reason females are psychologically the stronger sex, and when traditional chains are off, the females will rise to the top, as the article shows they have. While this is not a bad thing and mothers at the helmet should be welcomed, in the present situation it involves grave dangers. Because the female leaders of state are still neophytes, of course, but first and foremost because nest-thinking females are unlikely to back off, where males are willing to sound the retreat and fight another day. And what the present situation calls for is precisely leaders on both sides willing to back-off. As Liz Truss and Ursula von Leyen will not be able to, our hope rests with Putin and Lavrov.
Isn’t it ironic that the same voices who clamor for equality never seem to accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions. They want the benefits but never the backlash.
For all of history, women in positions of power always happened in times of major decline and demise.
It’s a hard rule of history, just like this phase following an era when the supposed elites drove their respective countries and societies against a wall.
As well, there isn’t a single example in all of world history of a succesful matriarchal society.
“As anybody with a half brain knows, anything men can do, women can do as well”
I have a full brain, so I know this is a lie, going both ways. By trying to sell this simp-mode garbage, you’re supporting the exact idiocy you’re pretending to decry.
Just google “women are better than men” and you get dozens of articles promoting this gibberish, as the feminist agenda demands (see this insidious pile of trash from the BBC https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/are-women-better-than-men/). Yet here we have harpies like Von der Leyen, Liz Truss, Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nudelman/Nuland proving that women are just as incompetent, corrupt and authoritarian as the best (worst) of them.
Oh, and well done for your reference on garbage collectors. I wonder when feminists will start to clamour for equal representation in sewage treatment plants, street-sweeping, masonry, building and repairing roads, railway lines, airports, you get the picture. If they can demand equality in tough physical work in the army, the police and fire-fighting then they shouldn’t have a problem with these other occupations, riiight?
Our own Trudeau has insisted on having a gender balanced cabinet, to the detriment of the country.
Cynics suggest this is because women tend to vote Liberal more than men and they want to keep those votes.
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-biggest-divide-in-canadian-politics-men-vs-women/
The good news is that Canada is a flyweight in global affairs.
Apart from the virtue signaling aspect of the promotion of women to positions of visible authority, another dynamic may also be at work. In Stephen King’s Under the Dome, the arch-villain Jim Renne (said to be modeled on Dick Cheney) is a huge fan of girl’s high school basketball because females supposedly “take things personally.” While this observation is anecdotal, I believe that a female presence is necessary for “full spectrum” evil. Would King Ahab have been as bad as he was without Jezebel? A tough woman can shame male underlings to take a tough stand in situations where cooler heads should prevail.
In the list of moronic female leaders let’s give an honory mention to Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand and Justine Trudeau of Canada.
And, “As anybody with a half brain knows, anything men can do, women can do as well, and some indeed better. “. Not necessarily completely accurate. The sexes do have differences in terms of strength and mental approaches. Society should be utilising their populations strengths, whether male or female, rather than aiming for a non existent equality – we are all different, thank goodness – best person for the job regardless of sex or race.
Lenin said Communists must stand for the fullest and most complete democracy, because it is only then does it become clear that capitalism is the real problem.
Thatcher and Meir are great examples.
Just look at your place of work. Women largely occupy administrative positions set aside for them. I looked into the HR group at my company, 90% women. The ones who work the website are male.
Dear Hans,
Re; “As anybody with a half brain knows, anything men can do, women can do as well, and some indeed better.’
You must have been vaccinated with that 1950’s Hollywood song, ‘Anything you can do, I can do better.’ with every verse ending up in a shouting match. (Annie get your gun)
Of course this feminism of being better than men has entered the entertainment field of sport, where it is vividly demonstrated that women cannot do better than men.
However there is one field that some women demonstrate their superiority, and that is in incompetence, mainly due to the fact that most of those in that field (m/f) generally think more of themselves rather than the required subject in hand. This also applies to politics.(think of the American country song: Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble)
Many politicians, after spending four or more years studying at a university, where they learnt little or nothing, found that they couldn’t earn a decent wage in their field of study and thus entered politics. In Australia, Abbot and Costello was a classic example of that.
When Joan Kirner, the Victorian Premier went on a crusade to bring more women into parliament, she simply wanted women. Competence, intelligence and capability were irrelevant, and that is what we got..
There was though, one woman who could control me; my mother, who was bigger than me, more capable and intelligent than I and besides, she was armed with a bamboo duster for whenever one of us stepped out of line.(Maggie Thatcher, eat your heart out) And one piece of advice she gave me was to never put a woman on a pedestal. Good Advice.
Were there any women that I met that demonstrated a better intelligence than I? Of course! Many including those who declined an offer of marriage, and I think of where Albert Einstein would have been had he not married that Serbian lass who did understand mathematics and did attend university. Still in a Swiss Patents Office perhaps?