[Magdalen] More USA Today.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, Scott, I've wondered for a long time why the US is so backward about women leaders. Other countries have had women heads of state for decades. Where did we get this idea that somehow women aren't as capable as men?

> On Jun 6, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been following Angela Merkel and German news in general since
> I've been watching the news from tagesschau.de almost daily (the 20
> Uhr video...it's the main 8pm news show). She's been having trouble
> with the Turkish bully Erdogan; his latest is attacking
> Turkish-ancestry representatives in the federal parliament that
> they're terrorists for helping pass the resolution classifying the
> Armenian massacre as genocide. Previously he demanded punishment of a
> German comedian for a satirical poem that lambasted Erdogan. There's
> something called freedom of expression that he doesn't understand in
> his bully world.
> 
> Merkel is being criticized by some for caving in to Erdogan (or not
> hitting back hard enough) on some issues. I did have to laugh out loud
> when I saw a blog post where they spelled her name "Frau Mürkül,"
> which makes her name look Turkish. Zing...I don't agree but it looked
> funny.
> 
> I agree that the USA needs to grow up about women leaders. Women are
> leading in other western countries (notably Germany, where the defense
> minister is also a woman) and doing the job at least as well as male
> predecessors. Any misgivings over here are just ignorant. Oh, there
> can be other problems with individual women being considered, but
> being a woman is not one of them.
> 
> I'd have more of a problem with a 20-something being secretary of
> state (Sebastian Kurz, Austria's foreign minister). There just needs
> to be a bunch more experience there that only time can allow, no
> matter how brilliant a thinker the person is. The "Bild" tabloid, when
> Kurz was appointed, had a banner headline in English, "IT'S A BOY!"
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA