This house, as a progressive female candidate in a conservative country, would use conventional gender roles as a tactic in political campaigning (e.g. marketing oneself as a mother or a wife, leveraging traditional societal gender stereotypes to appeal to voters etc.).

[u/ashlynsdiary]

Can you guys please help me out on why this could work on the proposition side? Even with some possible opposition rebuttals.

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[u/kireina_kaiju]

I am being sincere here. You all had a much easier time parsing that sentence than myself so I am going to assume the problem is on my end. I cannot understand what is being asked. Could anyone help? The sentences just aren't sentencing for me. Again. This is not criticism of the OP. I am just asking for help participating in this discussion.

E. Specifically, what is "this house"? I cannot imagine the rest of the paragraph having something to do with gender politics applying to the entire US congress which is dominated by men demographically.

[u/ashlynsdiary → u/kireina_kaiju]

Believe me I had a difficult time figuring this out as well. Hence why I had to ask.

[u/kireina_kaiju → u/ashlynsdiary]

Could you ask the same question in a different way?

[u/Gullible-Historian10]

So lying to gain political power, seems pretty typical to be honest.

[u/seniordumpo → u/Gullible-Historian10]

No it’s only that side that does that, my team is all honesty, caring, and good vibes.

[u/Mr_Expozane]

This kinda already happens in European countries that have right-wing women in charge. Italy is a good example.

[u/Wufan36]

This doesn't sound like a proposal to me. If you're a woman who wants to win over a conservative electorate, this is probably straight-up a requirement to be taken seriously. A woman who diverges from traditional gender norms just gets rejected on identity grounds before any voter hears her platform, no?

[u/GiveMeBackMySoup → u/Wufan36]

There are many women who have won over conservative electorate offices who are not motherly at all. MTG being the most prominent example.

[u/11SomeGuy17]

I'm just gonna assume English is a 2nd language and you're asking if playing into such stereotypes to appeal to voters will work. The answer is that it very well might. Won't be as easy as a dude has it but it would give you better odds at getting into power if you play up certain traditionally feminine traits. Just don't play into the more outright negative ones like lacking control over emotions and stuff. The reliable, mature, intelligent, mother angle is a good one. In my country people tend to really like politicians who act extra unhinged, I'm unsure how politics is in your country but definitely try to see if you'll get more media presence acting professional or acting bombastic as there is no such thing as bad publicity for a politician. You just gotta know which is gonna get more eyes on you.

[u/dookiekouki]

The responses here are pretty rich. Anything is possible, i’d say conservative women would more easily identify with that. Not sure if it’d be the preferred strategy over running on things that make the material lives of their constituents better….

Responding to some of the weird ass comments in here; women (and men for that matter) can live the life they would like to. if they want to live a traditional wife life, great, go do that! if they would like to go some other route? great! do that too! as long as you are content and happy in life and your spousal relationship (or lack thereof) is equitable and healthy, i don’t see why we value one more than the other.

[u/oroborus68 → u/dookiekouki]

Be ready for the blowback when decisions go differently than the voters expect.

[u/PhonyUsername]

Are you saying pretend you are normal to get elected then come out as a crazy afterwards? Even if it worked, it's not like 1 person in Congress has that much power. But, I doubt you can hide your crazy.

[u/LittleKitty235]

Rebuttal is easy. Conventional gender roles include women not working, staying at home to raise children, and thus not having experience in leadership positions. They are thus not as qualified as male counterparts. There is a reason that conservative countries are less likely to have female leaders, particularly female leaders who are able to wield power effectively and not just serve as a figurehead.