This may sound stupid, but I would give up my vote if I could ban my lib/lesbian sister from voting as well.
Assuming you and your sister live in the same place, your votes would be canceled out autmatically. I’d never forfeit my right to vote.
Netmilsmom — See, I’m with you on that. I’d give up my vote if it would knee-cap the radical feminists as well.
I just echoed your sentiment before reading it.
Doesn’t sound stupid at all, actually. No observation about human behavior is absolute. Ann’s saying essentially the same thing.
As leader’s go, the percentages of great female leaders to so-so/bad leaders is likely to be consistent with male leaders. Do you think Thatcher might have been an effective first female President? Maybe Jeanne Kirkpatrick? Jennifer Dunn in WA state would have been a great President, in my opinion.
There are others too. I believe leadership quality is blind to gender. You either have it, and its developed and nutured in you, or you don’t, and no amount of help can bring it out. I laugh when executives in companies say, “We’ll have no managers here, only leaders!”
Leadership development has its basis on a shared set of character traits and values, which is a sticky legal wicket for a lot of companies in the US. It’s not like teaching Management by objective, or other ‘managerial science’ topics.
As a former Democrat male I am against denying the vote to women. In fact three women much younger than me influenced my decision to leave the Democrats more than a decade ago. These young conservative women had very logical, persuasive arguments to topics we discussed. Most young men I know are nutty liberals. In fact where I work there was a higher percentage of women who were Republicans than the men. And half the conservative women were young single women. So it's not easy to generalize.