Mastodawn

🤔What if the greatest president in US history is a woman that will get elected in the 2040s?

And she reverses climate change, ends world hunger, and leads the multinational effort that saves us from The Comet(tm)?

But she never exists?

Because she dropped out of politics?

Because of harassment?

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Wild Sown 1d ago

@mekkaokereke at this rate, do women owe it to the US to work miracles for it?

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cwicseolfor 1d ago

@wildsown @mekkaokereke As a white woman I have this exact thought about Black folks all the time, but they keep showing up, Black women more than anybody else. Owing is probably an irrelevant question (even though the answer is no - but the future generations of the world aren’t the US, either, and it’s hard to imagine feeling right passing the suffering on to them.)

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Wild Sown

@cwicseolfor @mekkaokereke I think we need to not conflate the US with "the world" here. Women can and do lead throughout the world.

As to whether passing suffering on to future generations of the world: would a woman president actually change that? Or would it simply restore the US' self-image of benevolent leadership?

Female president or not, it's time to stop dictating to the rest of the world. Learn to follow the women leaders who are already here.