No, man, I totally get that Thatcher's not who you'd want. For sure. It's just that none of our more conservative parties seem to have even contemplated a female leader, which is tiresome. The Centrist party has one, and she's fabulous, but the Moderates and the Christian Democrats never have. ETA: And I wouldn't vote for them ANYWAY, but the Social Democrats have also never had a female leader before.
Well, they sort of have to acknowledge that there's a possibility of a woman doing well, since she's been chosen to be the leader of the Social Democrats and they're the biggest party--it's basically a result of a party-internal election that went something like: "oh well we're in trouble we can try having a woman leader now"--but the majority of the coverage on her is like "People think Sahlin is a weak leader" "oooh look at her purse" etc. Which, this poll is very unfortunately phrased. And par for the course. I realize I explained it badly--essentially the debate is about her, because of her position.
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Date: 2010-06-24 07:16 am (UTC)No, man, I totally get that Thatcher's not who you'd want. For sure. It's just that none of our more conservative parties seem to have even contemplated a female leader, which is tiresome. The Centrist party has one, and she's fabulous, but the Moderates and the Christian Democrats never have. ETA: And I wouldn't vote for them ANYWAY, but the Social Democrats have also never had a female leader before.
Well, they sort of have to acknowledge that there's a possibility of a woman doing well, since she's been chosen to be the leader of the Social Democrats and they're the biggest party--it's basically a result of a party-internal election that went something like: "oh well we're in trouble we can try having a woman leader now"--but the majority of the coverage on her is like "People think Sahlin is a weak leader" "oooh look at her purse" etc. Which, this poll is very unfortunately phrased. And par for the course. I realize I explained it badly--essentially the debate is about her, because of her position.