No Woman US President

I was writing this post confidently and chauvinistically when suddenly, Boom Boom,  Tsai Ing-wen a first woman was elected President of Taiwan. It matters because Taiwanese Presidential elections are somewhat modelled along the US's.

I had to go into a drastic redrafting mode and consider arduous qualifiers and caveats.

I had to narrow the field to Anglo-Saxon countries and leave out "pesky" Asian women (apart from Tsai also Park Geun-hye of South Korea, Yingluck of Thailand, etc.) to win my argument. A position I strongly hold on to as asserted by my caption above.

The US Presidential Election system is heavily stacked against women or rather the nature of women.

Neurosciences have proven beyond a shadow of doubt that the brains of men and women are wired quite fundamentally different.

The US system is man-brain friendly and features numerous hoops and other obstreperous curbs to trip and stumble woman-brain aspirants as they participate in the race.

Carly Fiorina and Hillary Clinton thus far and yet still so far away from the first votes to be casted in November had already made full displays of the female impediments present in this contest. Check out the hilarious segments of news, debates and talk shows.

In a snap review within my newly defined parameters, I summon into comparison, Margaret Thatcher of ye olde England. It's the Westminster Parliamentary system of cabinet colleagues being among equals that gave Maggie a shot at the Premiership of Great Britain. 

It needed a bellicose, hot-tempered and vengefully sulky bachelor in the form of Edward Heath as leader who thrashed all the other male cabinet colleagues to the point that none dared rise to the occasion to challenge him. Maggie then sneaked in and slipped into power at the opportune moment during the "War of Testosterones". No such situation can exist in the US system.

The US system is too neat and rigid. It has no side pathways for womanly wiles and charms to wriggle through. The cabinet is made up of impotent puppet appointees. Hillary had no chance of displacing Obama even when her aggressive foreign policies stance over Obama's was favoured by the electorate. The British system would have ensured Hillary be elevated to President at that very moment.

A lot can be gleaned from the President-elect of Taiwan for US women. I hope to write more about her. For the moment, the important highlight is her extraordinary Chinese name "Ing-wen" which translated to English means precisely "English". This probably inspired her after her foundational Chinese education in Taiwan to obtain her Masters degree in Law from Cornell University, New York and her Ph. D from London School of Economics, UK.

Carly and Hillary already have the advantage of English education. Perhaps there is an Anglo-Saxon link they can profit from in their struggles. Just hoping to give you ladies a head start.

In the hallmark tradition of Trump after an offensive view made, I need to follow in his parlance as well and say I love women and women love me. It just happens to be true.