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The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

— Tina Brown

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

— Jonathan Raymond

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

— Timothy Noah

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.

— Tom Ford

The main reason we've been the party out of power so long is we haven't had a good nominating process.

— Terry Sanford

We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

— Abigail Disney

I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

— Daniel Kahneman

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

— Malcolm de Chazal

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

— Theresa May

✗Opposing Perspectives

We're able to choose our candidate not based on gender or sex or anything else other than their ideas.

— Emily Ratajkowski