Can Men Have It All?

A riposte to a profoundly nonsensical article by the BBC on Jacinda Ardern

The title of this article is inspired by a BBC piece which emerged in the aftermath of Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as Premier of New Zealand.

In the post which was originally titled Can Women Have It All, the former antipodean premier’s departure was attributed to women’s inability to do everything.

You would think that a leader who had brought the country together at a perilous time in its history, ensured that the numbers of Covid deaths were at a minimum, legislated to ban assault weapons and put her country on the map would be celebrated?

Instead her departure was held up as an example of why women cannot have it all.

And in that one sentence, we have an idea of what women are truly up against in a world that is still shaped by patriarchy.

As such I am compelled to turn the tables and ask the all important question: can men have it all?

Men, after all are incredibly emotional, illogical and utterly irrational.

We have seen too many male leaders who have demonstrated time and again that they do not have what it takes to run anything, never mind a conglomerate or a country.