Thatcher: Man enough to Lead

There are some threads where Free Republic's "old timey values" (read: bigotry) are especially evident. To wit: masculinity as leadership, and femininity as wimpiness. In this corner: Maggie Thatcher. In that corner: Gordon Brown

Edgar3 sets the tone:

Lady Thatcher would kick Brown’s ass! What a sniveling weenie.

kittymyrib decides to add a might-makes-right spin to things:

Gordon Brown will never be the man Margaret Thatcher was in her day. In fact,
I’d still bet on her in hand to hand combat with this wuss.

exile adds a troubling Aristocratic air:

Baroness Thatcher is twice the leader “Lady” Brown is.

Cause they're British, get it?

Niteranger68 is too obsessed with Muslims to stay on topic:

Gordon Brown - Muslim houseboy

Listen - I kinda agree with the thesis here -- I give no props to Brown, who apparently decided to blame Thatcher for his problems now. That's pretty weak.

But to describe such lameness as feminine, and to say that women leaders you like are "manly" says quite a bit about how you view women, Freepers.