{"id":1566,"date":"2026-06-29T23:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/06\/29\/is-it-okay-to-question-brigitte-macron-and-michelle-obamas-gender\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:10:52","slug":"is-it-okay-to-question-brigitte-macron-and-michelle-obamas-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"Is it okay to question Brigitte Macron and Michelle Obama\u2019s gender?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are indeed some reasons for men to suspect women in power of being men \u2013 just maybe not the ones you think<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>In\u00a0a recent piece for RT, \u201cWhy weird men try to put penises on powerful women,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>my dear and insightful colleague Rachel Marsden addresses the current tendency<\/a> of men to trash women who make it to the top, and focuses on the examples of Michelle Obama and Brigitte Macron. These two individuals have indeed been considered by many as men in disguise.<\/p>\n

It is very true that there\u2019s currently in the West (only in the West, really) a conflict between men and women. Relationships, intimate or professional, are\u00a0becoming more tense and more complex. But that is because of an ideological evolution. Adultery, which was the natural core problem between men and women for centuries, is apparently not the main matter of\u00a0contention anymore. However, questioning the abilities of men and women according to their profession is one issue; questioning the identity of leaders is a completely different one.<\/p>\n

One should be cautious about considering Michelle and Brigitte\u00a0\u201cpowerful women,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>but we\u2019ll get back to this.<\/p>\n

First, examples of powerful women in history abound, and no rational person would question that. Did anybody ever suspect Cleopatra of being a man? Did anybody ever think that Catherine the Great, with all her might and gallery of lovers, was a guy? Margaret Thatcher was nicknamed \u2018the Iron Lady\u2019, not \u2018Iron Man\u2019. One can argue that those examples are from the past and we in the 21st century live in a different reality, with a conflicting perception of so-called \u2018genders\u2019. What about Angela Merkel? What about Hillary Clinton, certainly the most \u2018powerful\u2019 woman of American political history (way more \u2018powerful\u2019 than Michelle Obama, to say the least)? Kaja Kallas? Ursula von der Leyen? Nobody ever said that they were dudes.<\/p>\n

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Why weird men try to put penises on powerful women<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, a powerful woman is not necessarily a political leader. And it has to be noted that behind every powerful man there\u2019s a woman, either to support him, inspire his ambitions, or push him to the top. Michelle Obama and Brigitte Macron could be this kind of women. But to call them \u2018powerful\u2019 is a bit far-fetched. Michelle is not Nefertiti. Brigitte is not Indira Gandhi. However, of course, powerful women exist in all spheres of human activities.<\/p>\n

Nobody ever considered renowned and acclaimed artists, writers, sportswomen, such as Camille Claudel, George Sand (though she chose for herself a masculine pen name), Charlotte Bronte, J.K Rowling, just to name a few\u2026 to be men. Neither did people ask them to work in a more masculine way. They all did what they wanted to do according to a natural dialectic.<\/p>\n

The only famous individuals considered as men in women\u2019s disguise that come to my mind are: the Chevalier d\u2019Eon, French diplomat and spy of King Louis XV who spent 32 years dressed as a woman only to be discovered to be a man during his autopsy;\u00a0second, pop icon Amanda Lear, who, for years, kept the rumor going that she might be a guy, only to admit decades later that it was a formidable marketing coup to launch her career. She nowadays laughs about the fact that people will remember her not for her artistic work but for what one would nowadays call her \u2018gender ambiguity\u2019.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s get to the main thing: why would it be a problem to suspect a \u2018powerful woman\u2019\u00a0of being a man? It\u2019s not because \u2018masculinity\u2019 would prevail nowadays \u2013 misogyny was way harsher in the previous centuries, and, as a futile example, no one suspected Josephine de Beauharnais\u00a0of being a man, though she wasn\u2019t able to give Napoleon an heir. It\u2019s also not because men fear\u00a0seeing their power destroyed or diminished. Women have never been that powerful in Western society and most men are absolutely okay with that. The only problem that heterosexual men can have in a woke society is eventually finding out that the woman they had intercourse with is actually a dude.<\/p>\n

We should remember that \u2018power\u2019 in general is a source of fantasy and the hardcore contemporary media exposure and exhibitionism of some personalities can only foster rumors. Incidentally, Michelle Obama and Brigitte Macron have been willingly overexposed thanks to the political positions of their husbands. They literally chose to be at the center of attention despite the loopholes in their past.<\/p>\n

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US pundit claims Macron has ordered her assassination<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The main reason behind these rumors is the obvious depravity of Western cultural and political elites. It has always been like this in history: the distrust between Western elites and their people is now so blatant that any rumor can be considered valid by huge chunks of the population. \u201cVice is nice, but incest is best because it stays in the family.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Remember that one? Then, the Epstein case is so overwhelming that anybody from the elite can seem suspicious. In Macron\u2019s case, the fact that Brigitte seduced the current French president when he was her 14-year-old student was enough to raise eyebrows as it is purely illegal. And the couple\u2019s secrecy and legal maneuvers against Candace Owens further nurtured suspicion. In other words, the population in general (not only men but a lot of women are actually concerned, as their maternal instinct drives them to protect their children) finds itself cornered in a logical conspiracy loop and\u00a0considers it legit to question who the hell is ruling them.<\/p>\n

When it comes to \u2018gender audits\u2019, that could be a political trick in order to discredit people like Obama and Macron by convincing the world that they are gay: the argument might work for\u00a0the rather puritan US, but\u00a0in France it doesn\u2019t. Just because the French don\u2019t give a damn about the sexual life (or lives) of their leaders \u2013 at most, it\u2019s a source of historical jokes. \u201cFive minutes, shower included\u201d<\/em> being the French\u2019s favorite quote when it comes to Jacques Chirac and his lovers. That\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama and Brigitte Macron are the victims of the depravity of Western elites and their own exhibitionism. To quote the above mentioned article, with all due respect:\u00a0 \u201cBecause being a man can\u2019t just be a neutral activity. It has to be virtue-signaled, shouted into microphones, and ideally monetized.\u201d<\/em> Well, let\u2019s take a look at what category of people is making cash on OnlyFans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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