Four wives of world leaders - Melania Trump, Brigitte Macron, Malgorzata Tusk, and Aki Abe - wore a spectrum of colors and elegant elegance at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France. They are like brides.
The wives of the leaders appear to be wearing “tools” to accompany their husbands at world summits, which is detracting from their value, critics say. Certainly, these ladies do not have much work, so they accompany their husbands as a kind of decoration.
For President Donald Trump, Melania's presence next to him seems to further dehumanize her, because she seems unhappy. We saw her broad smile in the disaster areas (finally, she was carrying an orphan in a mass shooting in El Paso, and it looked like she was applying for a Christmas card). She is bored everywhere, but even in North Korea, which is sure to interest anyone, she seems to be watching a shopping channel.
In the 1990s, the wives of politicians adopted their decorative status with a certain irony. It seems that Hillary Clinton and Sherry Blair, who are far from vulgar, want to say, “Do you want us to act like mentors? We will give you instructions ». In the post-Seattle period, when these summits became an occasion for anti-globalization protests, the first ladies preferred to go to places of interest far from any political problem.
"The wives of the G8 leaders had a busy schedule like their husbands," the Daily Telegraph described the scene in 2009, when women visited the site of the devastating earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy. Earthquakes are a great opportunity for PR, because they are a human condition. But in this case, it did not succeed, in part, because the Italian press previously described their meeting as a “rosy occasion,” but mainly because there is gender discrimination and all the inferiority of women, which permeates media coverage.
To change this, it's easy. Presidents' wives must stay at home. This may sound strange, but the presence of a woman alongside her husband is incompatible with women's aspirations and dignity.
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They accompany their husbands as a species
Of decoration.