Sheesh Gramdma. You have a stick up your hiney. Modern women can rock and roll. I am a man and duck often when they swing. You have to eliminate the sex of the opponent and just understand the opponent. You are so 2000 and late.
Oh and I am probably your age. just younger in mind.
I think Auntie was suggesting that some nations simply don’t respect women at all, and it would be unwise for the US to send a woman to represent us. To win in any diplomatic way, you have to start by understanding the thinking of the other side; and you have to hit them with what they do understand and respect.