Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well.
So, the office of First Lady is obviously a very public, significant role.
The world likes to see the First Lady engaged in social issues and charities,
and she is often responsible for event management within the
White House, design, and generally keeping a steady ship.
She may also be deemed a fashion and style icon, and there has been
many a First Lady on a magazine cover.
Michelle Obama got a lot of love from the media when she was First
Lady.
Huge amounts of positive attention were given to her
initiatives, her personality, her fashion sense, and she was rigorously
and publicly defended from any criticism, which, aside from nasty
trolls on the internet, was few and far between.
Indeed, the office of First Lady is a cherished one, you could even call
it iconic, that has traditionally been afforded a lot of respect by the
press and other public figures.
After all, she’s not the one dishing out the policies, popular or unpopular, so of
course it would be unfair to lump her in with any criticism of her husband
as President.
So, why has Melania Trump not been afforded the same courtesy?
The difference between how the media has treated Melania, and
former First Lady Michelle Obama, is palpable.
While Michelle was showered with love and good publicity, the
media alternates between ignoring Melania completely and speculating
about her
marriage or her clothes.
That, and occasionally mentioning her charity initiatives in a mocking, disparaging
way, no matter how noble the cause.
And interestingly enough, although not at all surprising, is the fact so
many of the most personal digs have come from women.
Women who claim to be feminists.
Regardless of the fact Melania Trump has done literally nothing wrong or malicious,
and she is not publicly political, she has been lumped in as an accessory
to her husband by these women, and has been stripped of her
intersectional protection card as a result.
The hypocrisy of this is enormous, because the women who routinely
disparage her would be the first to say that women should not be
judged by the actions of their husbands.
Look at the people who leapt to Hillary Clinton’s defence during
her election campaign when people brought up Bill’s misdeeds; they
rightfully said she should not be judged by his behaviour.
And yet here is Melania Trump, who is not even a political figure, has
said and done nothing provocative, and she’s degraded, slut shamed,
and bullied by these same feminist hordes because they don’t like
her husband?
This strange double standard of feminists when it comes to women
who aren’t onside is nothing new.
I cop it all the time, so does every conservative woman.
To women on the left; politics is the most important thing.
Not gender.
Which I would actually be fine with, if they just owned up to it.
If they outright said, “We’re only going to
support you if you join our cause,” then they could get away with it.
But they don’t do that.
They continue to represent themselves as a movement for all women, and then continually
prove that is not true when a Melania Trump or a Sarah Palin or a
Kellyanne Conway dares to raise her hand.
This article from feminist rag Salon sums up the
thinking behind this double standard
“These are the unfortunate conundrums of feminism — how to deal
with a woman who uses the very rights and privileges won by the
movement to support misogyny and white supremacy, forces that
will serve to roll back those gains.
Call it the Kellyanne Conway conundrum.”
“These women, like Melania, are not prisoners.
They are the jail keepers holding the keys.
They are the very thing that women marched against — and what they will continue
to fight for the next four years.
You shouldn’t cry for Melania Trump, no matter how
tempting it is to feel sorry for anyone married to a tyrant obsessed
with crowd size.
You should resist her.”
Okay, so what you can see here is the “anyone who doesn’t agree
with me is a misogynistic white supremacist” complex.
It just proves, again, how intellectually lazy, redundant,
and reductive modern feminists are.
No wonder second wave feminists like Christina Hoff
Somers and Camille Paglia despair at what the movement has turned
into.
We saw this again with the FreeMelania hashtag
when feminists at women’s marches held up signs saying
that Melania should blink twice if she needs help.
The hashtag spewed all over Twitter after the inauguration
in 2017, fuelled by high profile so-called feminists like Chelsea
Handler.
This wasn’t the only thing Chelsea had to say about Melania.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, she had this to
say when asked whether she would invite Melania on her show
That’s a little bit rich from someone who claims to oppose Donald
Trump’s immigration polices and alleged bigotry, doncha think?
Then, of course, from the male side of things, was Jimmy Kimmel.
Never forget, for all his talk of empowering women, Jimmy Kimmel
used to host The Man Show, which consisted of pinning women up
as sex objects and finishing each show with a montage of scantily
dressed women jumping on trampolines.
In any case, contrary to what Chelsea and Jimmy and others have
asserted, Melania actually speaks perfect English.
Not only that, she is fluent in five languages; English, Italian,
Slovene, French, and German.
Chelsea and Jimmy, on the other hand, seem to only be
fluent in
This #FreeMelania blink twice nonsense is based on a larger narrative
these hypocrites are spinning; that Melania is a prison in her
marriage.
That Donald Trump subjugates and belittles her.
That there is no love between the two of them, and that
she is the victim of his overbearing misogyny.
Again, this is public commentary that simply would not happen if
Donald Trump were a Democrat President; it would be decried as
sexism and terribly invasive.
But since Melania is a Republican First Lady, it’s open season.
And as Melania herself has said, nothing could be further from the truth
Okay, so the answers to that second question were very cute, but
even asking the question “do you think you’re in a marriage of
equals” is a loaded one.
They would never have asked Michelle Obama that.
Speaking of Michelle; there’s another left-wing feminist
woman who does not have Melania’s best interests at heart.
Last year, Michelle had this to say in an
interview with
So first of all; Michelle would absolutely have know
the criticism of Melania that terse little response would generate.
Second of all, gosh does Michelle Obama have one hell of an ego
on her, that she thinks Melania Trump would even consider asking her
for advice.
Michelle has been horrendous about Melania’s husband, and comes
from the dirtiest, most reactionary incarnation of the Democratic
Party that has been seen for some time.
Why the hell would Melania confide in someone who not only has repeatedly
and publicly insulted her husband, but is very very clearly
not onside?
Especially
after this performance at the inauguration
The truth of the matter is that Melania Trump is Michelle Obama’s
worst nightmare; that is, Melania is an excellent First Lady.
Unlike Michelle, she does not hog the spotlight,
which is appropriate since it is the president who is elected, not their
spouse.
Melania has been involved with a number of charities, and has
her own initiative entitled Be Best, which is dedicated to protecting
children from online dangers and cyberbullying.
In this brave new digital world, that kind of initiative is sorely
needed.
As Melania revealed in an interview with ABC, she has
copped such a huge amount of online abuse, so she is very aware of
how cyberbullying can be weaponised, and feels for those who do
not have as thick a skin as she does.
But of course, this excellent initiative was taken and twisted by
Trump haters, who insisted it was tone deaf because of Donald
Trump’s alleged bullying of people on Twitter.
Okay firstly; Donald Trump doesn’t “bully” anyone online.
He only personally attacks people who personally attack him first.
That’s called self-defence, not bullying.
The only reason the hand-flappers on the regressive left call it
bullying is because while they can dish it out, they can’t take it.
They’ve had their way for so long in terms of controlling public
discourse, that any kind of slight towards them in response to their
spite they perceive as bullying.
Secondly, here they go again judging Melania Trump by her
husband’s actions.
Their hatred of Donald is obviously greater than
their concern for children.
And that is actually true of a number of people and organisations who claim to be “charitable”,
according to Melania
Then, of course, there is the hypocrisy of relentlessly judging her by
what she wears, like the extraordinary fuss that was created when
she dared to wear a pair of stiletto heels when boarding a plane to
Texas with her husband to be briefed on Hurricane Houston.
For the record, and not that it matters, she changed into a pair of
tennis shoes on the plane.
Then, of course, there was
the jacket
And the safari hat
The hypocrisy double standard that plagues media
and celebrity coverage of Melania Trump is obvious, and
indeed, boundless.
They want to paint the picture that because she
is quieter and more private than other First Ladies, she is submissive,
a bimbo, at her husband’s beck and call.
This is clearly not true; Melania, by her own
admission, is not shy at all.
She’s very confident, in fact, and like her
husband, she sees herself as a winner
Her detractors also want it to appear as if she has no interests and
no independence.
Again, false.
So false.
As well as having a stellar
career as a fashion model, Melania is a long-time jewellery designer.
In fact, her QVC line of accessories sold out in 45 minutes.
She is also devoted to her son Barron, and invests an enormous
amount of energy in making sure he has as normal a childhood as
possible, and is protected from any attacks from vicious media or
celebrity grifters.
Like this one from former Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich, who tweeted “Barron will
be this country’s first homeschool shooter”
Oof.
She was fired from SNL soon after that.
Isn’t it funny how Twitter turns grown adults into narky children?
Needless to say, Melania Trump does not deserve the petty media
and celebrity scrutiny she receives from the noxious, obnoxious
regressive leftist journalists, and their celebrity counterparts.
The double standard they unashamedly push further
reveals how toxic that far-left ideological faction is.
Melania is intelligent, ambitious, and committed to being the best
version of herself she can be.
She is compassionate, and cares deeply about those more vulnerable that her, especially
children.
She is a devoted wife and mother, whose loyalty knows
no bounds.
She is a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur,
and has had a career that most career women could only dream of.
And, of course, she is beautiful.
Which, let’s be honest, is most likely one of the reasons Chelsea Handler et al hate
her so much.
Typical women.
I just wish, given Melania’s talents and kindness, the media
would swallow their pride and their agenda, and give her some fair
coverage.
Is that too much to ask?