I am a big fan of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK. She is about the only woman leader that I can think of, over the past 50 years, that stands in the pantheon of greats. She thus proves two things: first, that this is possible; and second, that it is very, very rare.
Thomas Sowell serves a similar role among US black intellectuals. Nearly all educated blacks end up as race hustlers and DEI enthusiasts. Few show much merit beyond this self-serving circle. Much the same is true of women in leadership positions, in government, business or elsewhere. Most are Feminism hustlers and DEI enthusiasts, and do more harm than good. We would be better off without them. A mediocre man is far more tolerable, and useful, than a highly capable woman who is a Feminist hustler and DEI promoter.
But even Margaret Thatcher, the greatest of the great, couldn’t “have it all.” At least she had very high regard for stay-at-home mothers. “To be a mother and housewife is a vocation of a very high kind,” she said.
Like her predecessor, the great Queen Victoria, who presided over fifty years of the pinnacle of British excellence, Margaret Thatcher was an anti-Feminist. Here’s a summary from Grok:
I bring this up as an assurance that we don’t need women to have careers in general. Little good comes of it. Yes, there are a one-in-a-million Margaret Thatchers out there. But, you know what would happen — such women would just do what they do anyway, just as Margaret Thatcher did. So, we would lose nothing, really.
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