
Here’s what I see happening. Leadership as an exercise in patriarchal macho values of domination, greed, exploitation, possession, abusiveness, rank — that age is over, even as the Trumps and Farages embody it. True leadership today, and for the next century, is about nurturing and elevating and expanding the possibilities of things — from a reef to a child to a river — with care, gentleness, defiance, courage, truth, rebellion, grace. Sure, men can do that, too. But patriarchy and capitalism and supremacy — the great systems of male violence that have run our world for millennia now — can’t.
…royed everything they came in contact with, ultimately, from the planet to life on it to democracy. Who else was going to rebuild from the rubble of male violence but…women? Male violence made the world a dystopia. Women are changing it. But I’ll come to all that.
…omen. The systems of male violence that have run the world for ages now have also run their course. They have destroyed everything they came in contact with, ultimately, from the planet to life on it to democracy. Who else was going to rebuild from the rubble of male violence but…women? Male violence made the wo…