An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Are We Really So Shallow?
While no woman has been president of the United States — yet — the world does have several thousand years’ worth of experience with female leaders. And I have to acknowledge it: Their historical record puts men’s to shame.
Methinks this guy is a Clinton supporter. No problem there. What caught my eye was this:
The broader conundrum is that for women, but not for men, there is a tradeoff in qualities associated with top leadership. A woman can be perceived as competent or as likable, but not both.
Wrong. Women can be both competent and likable. Some women just are not both.
Then, in the next paragraph:
“It’s an uphill struggle, to be judged both a good woman and a good leader,†said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor who is an expert on women in leadership. Professor Kanter added that a pioneer in a man’s world, like Hillary Rodham Clinton, also faces scrutiny on many more dimensions than a man — witness the public debate about Mrs. Clinton’s allegedly “thick ankles,†or the headlines last year about cleavage.
Honestly, I don’t care if the woman shows up on the idjit box in sackcloth. Personally, I judge her by ‘the content of her character’, which Mrs Clinton is sorely lacking. (Although, truthfully, she shouldn’t wear those pantsuits that make her hips look like she could stop a Mack truck.)
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You mean her six-ax-handle-wide posterior? Even cartoonists are getting that in perspective, along with her thunder thighs and cankles.
Ummm….yeah.