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Originally Posted by Dezzy

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.

I'm not telling anybody to do anything - my issue isn't even with Kate Middleton's life choice, it's the media portrayal of this as being something to aspire to and the consequential admiration of Kate as a person and by proxy of her lifestyle. That, I find damaging. They've elevated an unlikely romance into a real life fairytale and she's more than willing to play along with that which I think is dangerous when it's then plastered all over the papers in favour of more pressing issues in the world. To reiterate, I don't think she's in any way a bad person, just that what her marriage represents is unrealistic and potentially damaging to young girls and young women. It's not that she's pretty, it's that she's dolled up to unrealistic standards, dressed in the nicest clothes and always looks immaculate to a point that no other woman could do on a day to day basis. There is a team of people dedicated to making her out to be a Stepford Wife, essentially, and I find it a bit troubling.