{"id":46109,"date":"2021-09-19T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46109"},"modified":"2021-09-18T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T14:20:19","slug":"qotd-gender-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/09\/19\/qotd-gender-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Gender stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Whenever I hear people stereotyping based on gender. &#8220;Women vote this way&#8221;, &#8220;Men act in this manner&#8221;, I am reminded of the great contrast between Britain&#8217;s two women Prime Ministers. Thatcher, won a brilliant renegotiation of the EEC, trounced the unions, denationalized vast swaths of obscene nationalized industries, and was one of the four people instrumental in ending the cold war. May, the other lady from number 10, apparently couldn&#8217;t negotiate the purchase of a sausage supper for fifty quid in the local fish and chip shop.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it is more to do with the content of your character than the content of your underpants.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Orr, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2018\/12\/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-1126\/#comment-762592\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">commenting at <em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>, 2018-12-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I hear people stereotyping based on gender. &#8220;Women vote this way&#8221;, &#8220;Men act in this manner&#8221;, I am reminded of the great contrast between Britain&#8217;s two women Prime Ministers. Thatcher, won a brilliant renegotiation of the EEC, trounced the unions, denationalized vast swaths of obscene nationalized industries, and was one of the four people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,53,41],"tags":[390,1069,43],"class_list":["post-46109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-margaretthatcher","tag-theresamay","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bZH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68409,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46109\/revisions\/68409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}