1/ Hot take on the first half of the first ep of season 6 of House of Cards (quasi spoilers ahead)....
2/ As a female leader, I’m kind of put off by the heavy narrative that Claire wouldn’t get respect as President (so many references to what Frank would have done, an interaction with a soldier)......I’m not sure a female Prime Minister or President would actually be treated...
3/....that way. Anecdotally, women who obtain power after following in the footsteps of a larger than life husband or father do have a harder time proving their own merit (hell, it took me a year to build my own name after following Prentice in #yyccn). That said...
4/...I’m going to be really disappointed if the writers wrote Claire in with a permanent chip on her shoulder in the regard in the final season. She’s always been more than that in the past. I think it would do a disservice to women in politics.
