It seems you are not allowed to crack a joke if you are a female politician. That’s the claim of this article, focused on Hillary Clinton:
If there’s anything that can hinder a woman’s credibility faster than becoming visibly pregnant or getting caught watching Lifetime, it’s revealing the ability to be genuinely funny.
Is that true, I wonder? Maybe it is true for all politicians to some degree, since most good jokes carry some degree of offence within them. But perhaps women who do make jokes find it harder to get taken seriously – I’m thinking Mo Mowlam here – if they show themselves to have any wit.
Contrast perhaps with Charles Kennedy – his comedy turns – could a female politician do them? I suspect not.
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