Feminists
Related: About this forumIs America ready for a white, male Secretary of State?
http://jezebel.com/5959154/is-america-ready-for-a-white-male-secretary-of-stateThe Jo(h)ns' race and gender may also interfere with their ability to relate to many foreign leaders unaccustomed to socializing with men. How are we to advance our relations with South America, for example, when Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner want to go get pedicures at a women-only spa? What happens when Australia's Julia Gillard wants to go shoe shopping and they don't have any cute espadrilles in Huntsman's size? How can we hope to maintain healthy relationships with our European allies when John Kerry can't sit in a sauna with Angela Merkel, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the Prime Minister of Iceland? That's how all of the diplomacy is done over there! In saunas! Being a man means there are female-only spheres that Huntsman and Kerry simply won't be able to penetrate, to the detriment of America.
And the Jo(h)ns' whiteness won't serve them well, either. Depending on which suspect online source you consult, something between 10 and 15% of the world's population is white. And of those white people, only half of them are men. That's some pretty low relatability.
Besides the obvious issues of male physiology, men's natural tendency to be more violent and confrontational, the concern that Huntsman or Kerry will abuse paternity and grandpaternity leave because of family obligations, and a man's inability to socialize with certain female world leaders, other issues should raise serious questions about a man's ability to adequately perform the duties of Secretary of State. Men's reduced life expectancy means that the President may have to retrain a new Secretary of State if either man becomes suddenly afflicted with a number of male-specific diseases. And the fact that men don't tend to carry purses means that if a foreign leader needs somewhere to put their cell phone, neither man will be able to offer aid.
Deep13
(39,156 posts)...continuously recreated by performance. So if Kerry or Huntsman go shopping for cute Espadrilles, they will be recreating a feminine gender, not unlike the drag performances in Judith Butler's essay on gender performance.
Even so, I rather like Samantha Power for the job.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)some folks are as dumb as a box of rocks.
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JoeyT
(6,785 posts)The comments over there do indeed give rocks a run for their money. Mostly dudebros pissed because they don't grasp satire and asshats whining about how oppressed white dudes are.
Deep13
(39,156 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Hillary Clinton has done amazing work in this job. I'm sad that she will be leaving the job, but it's exhausting work I'm sure, especially given the series of events in the last four years with China, Syria, the Arab Spring etc.