[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Z

Progress can only go at the rate of the slowest person, though. I think their relationship is a perfect example of how a relationship would and should have been according to the standards of a century ago - nowadays women could, should and do aspire to be more than just somebody's child bearing wife whose only purpose is to look beautiful and be appreciated solely for that reason. It's not so much an attack on Kate herself but of the media portrayal of her and of the Royal Family as an institution and the way it controls every person within it and dictates how they must behave and be perceived.

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.

Nowadays women should make their own decisions, telling a woman they have to be outspoken and career minded isn't all that different to telling them they have to focus on being a pretty housewife and nothing more. It's two sides of the same coin. It's still attempting to dictate what women should or shouldn't be.

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.