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This concept that women would be less violent world leaders is just such a bizarrely sexist take.
There is no innate feature of the female body that makes them less prone to geopolitical conflict, lmfao.
The funniest part is that lib who lib claimed Boudicca was an example to support the point. Siri, are massacres justified/non-violent?
It’s also very idealist and great person of history brained.
Executive leaders are just a cog in their nation state’s apparatus. Rarely do they have much ability to change anything, if they don’t go along with what the machine wants they get spit out. The entire structure and mechanisms of state and capital are much more powerful than any specific capitalist leader
Feminist international relations theory (specifically about how “war-like” leaders are) is not very compelling. We have historical evidence of a plenty of epic girlboss dictators who murdered their enemies. Indira Gandhi is one of my favorite examples. Fukuyama (yes the end of history guy) argues that in a democracy female voters are less likely to support war compared to men but even that has only shakey statistical evidence, plus the fact (that liberals won’t accept) that democracy has never mattered in foreign policy and probably never will barring world revolution.
Other Feminist IR theorists are doing great work though deconstructing the international patriarchy. The “only men can be warmongers” is just a like a pop science thing in the field
To be fair under a patriarchy, the only women that are going to be elected into any form of power are going to be those that have politics that appeal to the patriarchy. So to say that Thatcher is any indication of what female leadership looks like is naive
hmm thats actually something i never really thought about…. really good point tbh
The capitalist state will spit out any leader that doesn’t inflict the necessary violence to suppress the growing contradictions. This is an irrelevant discussion under capitalism, it doesn’t matter what the personality of a leader is ultimately or whether the leadership is male of female dominated, it will have to violently wage class war or be toppled
top banter from putin
Death to America
Counterpoint: Fuck the british including the 4.000 britons peacefully inhabiting those isles who just want to keep on with their peaceful lives herding sheep and drinking tea. If they could they would colonize and destroy your country.
And most importantly, the people living there actually wanted to be Br*tish.
I’m not necessarily defending this stance, but NATO installing themselves in Ukraine could definitely be seen as aggression onto “disputed” land that was very recently Russian
