Theresa May - Childless!!!

[sp1814]

In 2016, shouldn't we stop asking successful women why they are not mothers?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3671725/We-affected-not-having-children-coped-Exclusive-interview-Theresa-reveals-softer-steely-favourite-PM-says-EU-chiefs-talk-UK-Brexit.html

Would a male politician be asked about this?

[jno]

I have no idea how many children Gove has. I shouldn't think even Boris knows how many children Boris has.

So yes.

[anneasquith]

I do wonder why Mrs May feels the need to disclose this information at this time ?

[Old_Geezer]

Yes. For sure it disadvantages men who don't get a chance to show they have a softer side like that. I suspect she had no problem with the question.

[Gromit]

// I shouldn't think even Boris knows how many children Boris has. //

Brilliant jno, funny coz it's true.

[Prudie]

Agree SP and I couldn't care less about people's children - any chance this was a vote winning sympathy article, in the style more of a US campaign?

[anneasquith]

Prudie.yes.

[jambutty]

I don't care whether she's childless or not, I just don't want her to be our next MP.

[Gromit]

// I do wonder why Mrs May feels the need to disclose this information at this time ? //
- presumably because the journalist asked her about it.


// There is invariably an air of calm around Mrs May, who, dressed in a crisp white blouse, looks as slender and serene as the swans that glide beneath nearby Sonning bridge. //
- would a journalist write such vomit inducing tosh about a male leadership contender?

[jackthehat]

There would be a perception, in some quarters, that she had sacrificed the 'normal' urge for motherhood on the altar of 'career', so at least addressing it in a friendly article can head that particular idea off at the pass.

[mushroom25]

i don't know - but there was some pretty dodgy stuff written about Neil Kinnock in 1992......

[Zacs-Master]

Sp, there's a big difference between being asked and being open to talking about it in an interview. It seems to have been her choice so no real need for the question you have posed.

[Bertrum]

Apparently it was her decision to bring this out as she didn’t want any innuendo during her campaign. Personally I look forward to the day when women don’t have to address these darn stupid questions about wearing the same dress more than once and why they have or have not married or had children. I do however don’t think it is not just a man thing women can sometimes be more exacting on other women

[bednobs]

in answer tot he question - maybe, probably. I am with Anne on this though - the article is calculated to make her look softer and fluffier

[Hopkirk]

This isn't just any job application, this is to be the guv.

I think we need to know about the applicant in detail.

Even if it was a man I would want to know if he was married and had kids.

[bazwillrun]

I know that shes on the wrong side of the fence...she pro eu, thats enough...

The majority democratically voted to get out of the eussr so we need a PM that represents those views...

[sp1814]

Zac-Master

I agree that there's nothing wrong with being open about the subject, however - we really should be past the stage where women feel the need to explain why they don't have kids, either through circumstance or choice.

Perhaps, as bednobs has suggested, it 'warms' her public persona, but strength, leadership and political savvy ought to be the defining attributes of a prospective PM. Everything else is 'gravy'.

[jambutty]

She will not be invoking Article 50 this year baz, which is one if the reasons I don't want her as PM.

[woofgang]

Not just successful women....any women. personally I don’t care much about the personal lives of politicians or dentists or plumbers or anyone I am not personally close to. They should stay well within the law, work hard, be good at the job, and not use their job for their own gain to the loss of others, but apart from that, if they don’t have views on my personal life then i won’t have views on theirs.

[bednobs]

but SP it might be the gravy that matters in the end if you have 2 candidates tht seem equal in ability

[whiskeryron]

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jambutty
She will not be invoking Article 50 this year baz, which is one if the reasons I don't want her as PM. // That's all very well to quote JB, but we need to negotiate a deal for the UK before we finally leave, we do not want to cut off our nose to spite our face we want a deal with the EU which gets us back to using the Common Market without the politcs so we have our own elected government in Whitehall & our own border control so who do we have on the Brexit side ? For goodness sake not stab in the back Gove.