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19-04-2014, 03:11 PM | #1 | |||
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What do you think? I agree with the author of the article, I don't think she's a good role model for any little girl. She might be a kind person and she might be gracious and charitable but at the end of the day she was a normal girl with ambitions and hopes and an education and she chose to put all of those things into a little box and lock them away in favour of never having a hair out of place, a toe out of line and never giving much of an opinion on anything. Her role is to provide children and be a trophy bride. I wouldn't want any little girl to grow up wanting to be like Kate Middleton, Kate Middleton's life harks back to an era when women were not treated as equals and while I don't doubt that Prince William and his wife have a loving relationship, ultimately I think it's a very old fashioned type of relationship that's sort of sad to see. After the tearaway controversial brides that some of the older generations have had (Diana, Fergie...) it's obviously even more important to the royal family to have the most subservient, beige, people pleasing woman they can find to be admitted into the fold. I don't have a problem with Kate Middleton. She seems lovely enough - but that's the problem - she manages to somehow be everywhere without ever really saying or doing anything of interest, and that's exactly how the royal family want and need her to be. I wonder if she's happy with her life? |
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19-04-2014, 03:25 PM | #2 | |||
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Michelle Obama>>Middleton
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19-04-2014, 03:42 PM | #3 | ||
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Bit of a poor article I thought, a lot of assumptions about her life, choices and relationships with very little to back it up.
The whole idea of Role Models and their supposed impact is ridiculous to me, Kate Middleton's popularity will not bring back the middle ages. Women won't suddenly wish to be nothing more than housewives because of one person, anyone who is that easily led is not worth worrying about. |
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19-04-2014, 03:44 PM | #4 | |||
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Kate works well around the World
Its helping look here she is today in a Killing machine Feel The Force Last edited by arista; 19-04-2014 at 03:47 PM. |
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19-04-2014, 03:48 PM | #5 | ||
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I love Kate , she's the only one I like from the royal family
This must be one off them anti royal family websites |
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19-04-2014, 03:53 PM | #6 | |||
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Either way though it's abit silly to see her as a role model. She's just someone who married a royal. Big meh.
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19-04-2014, 03:53 PM | #7 | |||
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Harry>>
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19-04-2014, 03:56 PM | #8 | |||
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Edit: Say what you like about Sarah Ferguson but she's a three dimensional person who isn't afraid to speak her mind. I'd be surprised if Kate Middleton could find it within herself to give an opinion on anything that wasn't prepared by a team of fifteen people beforehand. Last edited by Z; 19-04-2014 at 03:57 PM. |
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19-04-2014, 04:14 PM | #9 | |||
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Sure it's great if a woman wants to be outspoken, ambitious and a bit radical, but not all women are going to have the same aspirations or the same views on life, as this article seems to think they should. The writer mocks how easy and privileged a life it is being a royal but also concedes that creating a good public image can be very difficult, a lot of people wouldn't have the energy or the ability to do a lot of the tasks and fulfil a lot of the obligations that Kate does as a royal |
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19-04-2014, 04:31 PM | #10 | ||
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At the end of the day it's their choice, if a woman wants to focus on her career then that's her choice, if she wants to focus on her family that's fine too. Last edited by Tom4784; 19-04-2014 at 04:39 PM. |
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19-04-2014, 04:32 PM | #11 | |||
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19-04-2014, 04:45 PM | #12 | |||
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19-04-2014, 04:54 PM | #13 | |||
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I like Kate. She's the complete antithesis of Diana.
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19-04-2014, 04:57 PM | #14 | |||
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19-04-2014, 04:57 PM | #15 | |||
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Exactly....she is genuine
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19-04-2014, 05:04 PM | #16 | |||
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19-04-2014, 05:14 PM | #17 | |||
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Yes most little girls want to grow up to be a princess....then they do exactly that, grow up. Kate is just one person. I actually think the Queen is that keen on repairing the royal image that if Kate wants to work she will be able to in some way shape or form. Let's face it, George is less than a year old many women with children if that age would still be on maternity leave. You are making a lot of assumptions on her personality which it's impossible to know.
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19-04-2014, 05:24 PM | #18 | |||
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i would and she and wills are lovely
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19-04-2014, 05:33 PM | #19 | |||
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19-04-2014, 05:35 PM | #20 | |||
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For the record, I didn't want to be a princess....I thought they lived in castles with no windows and had no tv. I've no idea why but the thought horrified me. I think my parents must've subliminally convinced me I wasn't princess material.
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19-04-2014, 06:07 PM | #21 | ||
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She's there to look pretty and keep her mouth shut. I would be very, very concerned if it was one of my daughters.
Having an opinion - especially a political one - if off the table for her. Many of the decisions regarding her child/ren/s lives will also be out of bounds (they've probably been made already). She isnt stupid, so she'll inevitable grow bored of being a well dressed mute manequin, and we'll have Diana Mk.II. Althooough... Given how that ended... maybe we won't, if Kate indeed "isn't stupid". |
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19-04-2014, 06:09 PM | #22 | ||
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In all seriousness: can anyone find me a Kate Middleton quote showing an opinion, any opinion, on anything, that isn't fence-sitting PR rhetoric? I'd be flabbergasted.
Pre-William doesn't count, btw. |
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19-04-2014, 06:29 PM | #23 | ||
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Of course she has opinions. Broadcasting them publicly I doubt is something she'd bothered about doing anyway.
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19-04-2014, 06:35 PM | #24 | |||
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Everyone moans when Prince Charles or Princess Anne get involved in politics and express opinions, now they moan when Kate doesn't?
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19-04-2014, 07:32 PM | #25 | ||
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