imo Jacinda Ardern was the most impressive New Zealand Prime Minister in (at least) a generation. right-wing men especially still harass her - more than three years after she retired from politics partly because of the incessant trenchant misogyny - with the fire of a supernova. these men need to get a goddamn life, so that she doesn't need a bodyguard to go get a coffee.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-01-2026/it-sure-looks-like-people-are-never-going-to-get-over-jacinda-ardern

It sure looks like people are never going to get over Jacinda Ardern

The former PM retired three years ago. The very mention of her name still has the power to send grown men spiralling,

The Spinoff

i don't give a toss if some NZ men felt "emasculated" during the first years of the pandemic, by being told to stay home and mask up and get vaccinated by her government. Jacinda Ardern and Ashley Bloomfield saved countless lives this way.

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUpIndoors

@adub

If "identifying as a man" means associating oneself with people like that and worse, then, "no".