No Normal and Healthy Woman
July 25, 2016
SINCE we’re going to hear a lot of blather from the Democratic National Convention about how remarkable and wonderful it is that a woman is running for president, I would like to say something you will not hear in Philadelphia:
No normal and healthy woman would want to be president.
All kinds of women, with different temperaments, gifts and talents, exist in this world, but no normal and healthy woman would want to be president of the United States, not now, not yesterday and not tomorrow.
No normal and healthy woman would want to have such power over men, who deserve the empathetic help of women because of the onerous responsibilities and competition life imposes upon them.
No normal and healthy woman would want to be drawn into the combat of presidential politics, combat which is so contrary to her nature. (A queen arrives at her position involuntarily, a president must fight for it for many years.)
No normal and healthy woman would want to emasculate her husband by being so much more powerful than he is.
No normal and healthy woman would want to boss as many people around as a president does.
No normal and healthy woman would want to send troops to war.
No normal and healthy woman would want to have so little time to call friends, visit the sick, comfort the dying and enjoy the company of young children.
No normal and healthy woman would want to have so little time to pray for the people she loves.
No normal and healthy woman enjoys being hated. A president accumulates many enemies.
No normal and healthy woman would want the complete lack of peace and quiet that comes with the presidency.
No normal and healthy woman is fulfilled by power.
No normal and healthy woman would want to promote the false idea to young and impressionable women that power is fulfilling.
With rare exceptions, women presidents, chancellors and prime ministers are sure to be deformed and cheated human beings, deprived of reaching their true potential by the androgynization of their societies.
No normal and healthy woman would want to be president.
— Comments —
Mrs. T. writes:
I completely agree with you that no normal, healthy woman would want to be president.
Except for the bossing many people around part. My older boys like remind me that I am very bossy. I must be very good at it. Ha!
