Re: Socialism and Women's Leadership (was China Drafts Law to BoostUnionsand End Labor Abuse)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/06, Mark Lause <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm concerned about leadership in the movement, but the gender of the
> bloody, stupid worthless figurehead for the sexless monstrous Moloch of
> THEIR institutions and THEIR Holy State seem irrelevant.
>
> As Yoshie surely recognizes, in our biz, we've had lots of woman in
> presiding positions, even in this, perhaps the most hidebound reactionary
> state north of the Mason-Dixon line.  And why not?  Conservatives and
> liberals have learned through trial and error (as with the adoption of woman
> suffrage) that it really changes nothing about what gets done and why.
>
> One modest advantage to having a female dictator de jour is that they
> further educate their subjects that the problems run far deeper.

If it really changes nothing about what gets done and why, and it
doesn't matter if parties and states are led by men or women, why
haven't socialist parties and states made women their leaders as often
as they have made men their leaders?   The consistent pattern of male
dominance, which appears to strengthen further to the Left one goes
from conservative/liberal to social democratic to socialist, suggests
that it is not a random occurrence.
--
Yoshie
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