'Our collective inability to imagine women as viable leaders doesn’t only percolate through the fictional worlds of popular culture. It also frames consequential political debates—and elections.'
and female candidates are judged by their looks and their demeanor, even the timbre of their voices, far too often.
If a dragon does indeed need slaying, can a woman be the slayer? Can we imagine a mother, of dragons or of regular little humans, as the slayer who nurtures and simultaneously vanquishes evil? Our cultural world has ample evidence of our vexing inability to imagine this pairing.
Imperfect men are the very definition of heroic figures, alluring in their quixotic complexity. Imperfect women are disqualified for dragon-slaying and Presidenting. But as the Democratic primary slogs on, we’re hard-pressed to fancy a woman as our champion or our knight in shining armor. Women can be mothers, of dragons or otherwise. They can be damsels in some sort of distress. They can even be heroines if they wear bustiers and are animated. But dare to be the mother of dragonsthe slayer at the same time and you can be sure patriarchs will do their level best to diminish, demean and dethrone.
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