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Originally Posted by OldDutch
I will give you credit. You are probably one of the few people left in this province who still blames sexism on precipitating her downfall, and still beats the drum.
Although I believe everything you wrote is true, in part, it is not why she fell. She fell because she sucked as a leader who tried to enact change. By all accounts she was a cow, to everyone. She ran her office like a queen, and that ticked many people off.
By writing her demise off as caused by sexism is not looking deep enough. The woman did just about everything wrong as someone who wants to influence the people who she needs to make change. She spoke down, and not at people. Frock even her goodbye letter sounded like a big F U I am better than you.
At any rate, this was a decent article I found last night, written by a woman, on how Redford just didn't get it.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/08...-the-province/
So bottom line, maybe she had a bit less track to be a bad leader as a woman, but in the end she went about her good policies in totally the wrong way and got turfed. Time to move on and see how Smith does in the role in a few years. |
Well that's kind of my point. I think that its partly just our male nature, but when women are powerful and run an office in that manner they're cows and bitches. When men run things that way they're a bull in the boardroom or keep everyone in line. I'm not suggesting that there is a double-standard because I don't think that were all a bunch of misogynists and frankly women treat other women/men in the same manner.
I'm not suggesting that she bears no responsibility either, and its not a case where I think that her actions mean that she was treated badly so she is free and clear. I just think that these same actions or similar by a man in the same position come across differently and we're more likely to overlook them, thats all.