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SenatorSherry@sherryrehman All 6 Countries With The Best Response To Covid-19 Have Been Led By Women (Original Post) BeckyDem Apr 2020 OP
Female leaders don't have the luxury of being incompetent. meadowlander Apr 2020 #1
Seems like the worst responses come from rw'ers everywhere empedocles Apr 2020 #2
The trend is interesting GopherGal Apr 2020 #20
S Korea and China are not lead by women, I understand people don't want to believe China and uponit7771 Apr 2020 #3
Ok, fair enough. Thank you. BeckyDem Apr 2020 #6
Did South Korea disappear? Hermit-The-Prog Apr 2020 #4
No, just overlooked, which is not fair. BeckyDem Apr 2020 #9
Doesn't fit the narrative DrToast Apr 2020 #21
So last week my cousin (Who voted for Trump) and is a DURHAM D Apr 2020 #5
A break through! BeckyDem Apr 2020 #7
Wow! Sounds like a breakthrough. yardwork Apr 2020 #13
my jaw dropped barbtries Apr 2020 #19
Not surprising! treestar Apr 2020 #8
those women all have something else in common. one might wish to avoid drawing msongs Apr 2020 #10
Yea, true, but its ok to boast sometimes on that one attribute that we are often dismissed on. BeckyDem Apr 2020 #11
I think most women have nurturing in their DNA, unlike most guys... abqtommy Apr 2020 #12
I put this up yesterday as DU went down, same banana Soph0571 Apr 2020 #14
Female Presidents in Taiwan and Singapore Nululu Apr 2020 #15
We would be on that list if the woman with the most votes in 2016 had been seated... NNadir Apr 2020 #16
Thread winner! BeckyDem Apr 2020 #17
South Korea, Norway, Australia? denem Apr 2020 #18

GopherGal

(2,008 posts)
20. The trend is interesting
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 07:00 PM
Apr 2020

despite the flaws in naming the "best 6' responses

The "every man for himself" libertarian "ain't no nanny state gonna make me stay at home" approach seems to correlate with a culture that can't bring itself to put women in power.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
3. S Korea and China are not lead by women, I understand people don't want to believe China and
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:00 PM
Apr 2020

... China's citizens in Wunhan don't want to believe them either but outside of anectdotal evidence there's nothing to go against their numbers

DURHAM D

(32,609 posts)
5. So last week my cousin (Who voted for Trump) and is a
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:01 PM
Apr 2020

life long Republican called to talk about how much better the female leaders, including Governors, are doing with this virus thing than all the Republican men.

She said "Women are care givers so they get it and the men just don't".

I told her that Democrats, men and women, just think differently than Republicans.

She said she guessed she had been voting wrong all of her life.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
7. A break through!
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:03 PM
Apr 2020

Seriously, that is a great realization. I hope we see more of that over the next several months.

barbtries

(28,789 posts)
19. my jaw dropped
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:39 PM
Apr 2020

at that last sentence. Congratulations! I fear I will die without ever hearing that from my brother.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
8. Not surprising!
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:03 PM
Apr 2020

Very practical and less ego, overall. I think there would be no wars if every country in the world was run by women! They just wouldn't go for the waste and don't respond to the courage/cowardice taunt as much.

msongs

(67,405 posts)
10. those women all have something else in common. one might wish to avoid drawing
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:50 PM
Apr 2020

conclusions based on only one attributet

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
11. Yea, true, but its ok to boast sometimes on that one attribute that we are often dismissed on.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:55 PM
Apr 2020

If ya know what I mean.

NNadir

(33,516 posts)
16. We would be on that list if the woman with the most votes in 2016 had been seated...
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:23 PM
Apr 2020

...in the office where most Americans wanted her to be.

But for a clause in the constitution to assure power to slave holders and still used by racists, we would be there.

 

denem

(11,045 posts)
18. South Korea, Norway, Australia?
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 06:36 PM
Apr 2020

"6 Countries With The Best Response To Covid-19 Have Been Led By Women" would be more accurate.

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