Would Nancy Pelosi Have A Sexism Problem Running For President

I think you have to understand what archetype these people represent in your brain on a deeper level... it's not sexist to inherently pick up on what the hell these harpies are. Your brain often catches things faster than you ever can when you think on it. It's a time saving mechanism...

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Yep.

 

I agree with @JuanValdez . All women have a sexism problem. Pelosi would have one for sure.

I am not a fan of Pelosi. I do respect that she is extremely good at what she does.

I feel that she puts winning and playing the game ahead of principles. She has lied about policy in order to build public sentiment, and get agendas pushed through. I think she is very controlling in trying to reign in Democrats who think outside the Democrat box. I don't like those things about her. But she is very smart and able to do accomplish a lot because of some of those things that make me dislike her.

Of all the things about her that I dislike, there are men in the House and Senate including the Republican leaders that are far worse than Pelosi.

So yes she faces munumental sexism.

 

Hard to judge given the sexism from the media and society. Anne Richards was very likeable.

 

I hope we get beyond this soon. There are several female, arguably more than male, candidates who would make an excellent POTUS.

 

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I'm not a fan of Pelosi but yes sexism would effect her candidacy. It's a deeply ingrained aspect of our culture.

 

We're so bottom of the barrel that pelosi is considered?

You could argue Trumps election happened because a majority wanted the opposite of what a female candidate would represent. OTOH, Hillary is a tough, calculating bird. She veered heavily towards stereotypically aggressive traits that she lost more women than analysts expected.

So I'm not sure how a woman would get elected at an existential downtime like this. Maybe the best chance would be after a 2 term Trump.

When people are fraid and anxious, they want either comfort or for someone's ass to get beat down to make everyone else look better. Cons and authoritarian nut huggers use the latter to meet the former.

 

I was gonna say "weird post to bump this with", but then I unfortunately hit the unignore button.

 

Run at 84? Haven’t these olds been ruining the country long enough?

 

Time for the GenX takeover

 

Ah, I know who to gripe at when GenX does poorly as well @Buck Turgidson

 

Everybody gets a shot.

All the people younger than us complain that they weren't taught in HS how to balance a checkbook/budget, make food, air up a flat tire, file taxes, etc...

Not about to trust a country to those peeps. Yet.

 

There is a lot of statistical evidence that women actually fare better in legislative elections (Congress, state house, etc) but do worse in executive elections (Gov, Pres, etc). Same issues women face as CEO's but are more accepted in other roles.

 

Felony or no?

 

Yes that should be a felony