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LiberalArkie

(19,967 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 01:37 PM 5 hrs ago

Women have a unique ability to balance logic w/ empathy. That makes women BETTER leaders.

Women have a unique ability to balance logic w/ empathy. That makes women BETTER leaders.

Look at the progress being made in Mexico 🇲🇽 under Claudia. How Italy’s PM held her ground. Michelle Obama.

It’s clear as day. We need more women leaders on the world stage!

This young man, fire!

Women have a unique ability to balance logic w/ empathy. That makes women BETTER leaders.

Look at the progress being made in Mexico 🇲🇽 under Claudia. How Italy’s PM held her ground. Michelle Obama.

It’s clear as day. We need more women leaders on the world stage!

This young man, fire! 🔥

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Women have a unique ability to balance logic w/ empathy. That makes women BETTER leaders. (Original Post) LiberalArkie 5 hrs ago OP
I can think of no one single thing that would make the world a better place AZJonnie 5 hrs ago #1
Thatcher? Meloni? LePen? Barrett? Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Kim Reynolds? Kay Ivey? - Kelly Ayotte? NoRethugFriends 3 hrs ago #4
Are you arguing against the general idea based on there existing some notable exceptions? AZJonnie 3 hrs ago #5
Thatcher created her own paradigm NoRethugFriends 1 hr ago #6
While I agree we need more women leaders, EdmondDantes_ 5 hrs ago #2
biological determinism is gross WhiskeyGrinder 5 hrs ago #3
Leaders are male and female. mr715 1 hr ago #7
As a woman fighting for equality over a span of 60 years, i ,earned never to make these msfiddlestix 46 min ago #8
If your assertion is true senseandsensibility 15 min ago #9

AZJonnie

(4,187 posts)
1. I can think of no one single thing that would make the world a better place
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 01:50 PM
5 hrs ago

than more women holding more of the levers of power.

NoRethugFriends

(3,839 posts)
4. Thatcher? Meloni? LePen? Barrett? Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Kim Reynolds? Kay Ivey? - Kelly Ayotte?
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 03:45 PM
3 hrs ago

AZJonnie

(4,187 posts)
5. Are you arguing against the general idea based on there existing some notable exceptions?
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 03:53 PM
3 hrs ago

These are women who held power, yes, but that was within the realm of the overall patriarchal power system. I'm speaking in generalities here, and also talking about a wholesale shift in paradigm

NoRethugFriends

(3,839 posts)
6. Thatcher created her own paradigm
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:49 PM
1 hr ago

Sorry, it's the individual that counts. Nothing forced the women I mentioned to be who they were.

EdmondDantes_

(2,256 posts)
2. While I agree we need more women leaders,
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 01:52 PM
5 hrs ago

The ability to balance logic with empathy isn't just available to women. Yes women through our cultural teachings tend towards that, but I think it is also often present in others who have either faced discrimination or trauma. Biden and Obama were great at it for example.

I don't think anyone should be describing a formerly overt fascist, now "just" nationalist anti-gay anti-immigrant far right leader like Giorgia Meloni in such a positive light as to compare her with Michelle Obama and Claudia Sheinbaum. Yeah she didn't knuckle under to Trump, but they still share a lot of the same horrible values.

msfiddlestix

(8,195 posts)
8. As a woman fighting for equality over a span of 60 years, i ,earned never to make these
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 06:42 PM
46 min ago

Kinds of declarations or assertions. If no other time in history, certainly current stable of women holding office of power across most positions of power who are proud maggots, completely devoid of any resemblance of logic or empathy. County clerks to the u.s. Supreme Court

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senseandsensibility

(25,962 posts)
9. If your assertion is true
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:14 PM
15 min ago

I think it is because of life experience, not a natural proclivity for women to be more empathetic and/or logical. I think women are so used to be undervalued, underestimated, and misjudged that they naturally pull out all the stops just to be accepted. I can tell you from experience (I'm female) that the pressure to be all things to everyone at all times is immense. If men experienced that, maybe they would rival women's abilities in these areas.

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