I also don't like her because she wrote a lot in her prior career about the serious problems in the world due to autocracy. And now she's carrying on neo-liberal policies that favour autocrats.
Canadian election this fall?
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ninj
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I'm not the only one who noticed!
Thank you for the laugh!
BetteTheRed
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Maybe we should just mandate uniforms for all politicians. A navy suit, and your only creative touch is your tie. How's that? Or red dresses for everyone? (*Bette chuckles softly at the image of Mr. O'Toole in a red dress and heels*)
I would like O'Toole a lot better if he showed up to parliament in a red dress and heels.
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Why not? When you gotta accessorize, you gotta accessorize. It's a rule...somewhere.
I criticized Melania for wearing a very military looking outfit for her "RNC Convention" speech from the WH rose garden. I don't think that was in any way sexist or out of line. It was a deliberate statement she made and deserves to be questioned. Clothes make political statements, often deliberately. And Melania, who doesn't talk much, has made several statements with her clothing choices. Her "I don't care. Do U?" Military green parka was a cryptic statement we still don't understand...and one of the weirdest fashion choices for a female political figure ever...but she was saying something.
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BetteTheRed
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I actually much prefer the way the Queen offers her opinions via subtle colours, and the known history of certain of her pieces of jewellery.
She's got charming style. Nothing wrong with that.
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Yes and for the most part, a lot of what the queen wears would be appropriate for women of different ages. She has a classic style.
I'm glad women are coming in and changing the dress codes. We've been stifled by archaic, paternalistic rules for too long. We need to stretch those laws. People like Freeland are dressing professionally using slightly different rules. Remember. Women's bare arms have been disallowed until very recently. Mr Singh changes up his turban and wears some quite flashy colours. I saw Trudeau in a gorgeous blue suit jacket the other day. It looked like a subtle check. While he usually wears more sombre colour suits in the House, why couldn't he and other men wear different colours as well?
I agree about changing dress codes. Except only the Queen can be the Queen. She has her own personal style. I don't think a lot of people could pull of those wonderful hats.
It's not Freelands choice of style. There's nothing wrong with the style of the dress. It's that it's exactly the same dress she's wearing in several photos taken in many places for several years (and it has long sleeves). So much so that its the only thing about her style that registers. It's too much solid red, too often. Maybe break up the red a bit? Add a patterned blouse?
It's not Freelands choice of style. There's nothing wrong with the style of the dress. It's that it's exactly the same dress she's wearing in several photos taken in many places for several years (and it has long sleeves). So much so that its the only thing about her style that registers. It's too much solid red, too often. Maybe break up the red a bit? Add a patterned blouse?
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Exactly.
BetteTheRed
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Agreed. To a certain extent, Freeland has just adapted the style of men; look one way, most of the time. But if she just wore a suit like them, she'd be accused of being too masculine.
I think Mendalla's got the best idea. Make them all, men and women, wear flour sacks, and then you'd just have to focus on what they actually did and said.
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I used to work under the supervision of the branch head of a library. She was very competent and able -- everyone looked up to her, and she was extremely petite. She used red and always dressed to her position. If a woman is small in stature, she isn't taken as seriously, unfortunately.
But at hand, I have to wonder how everyone will conduct themselves. Already, there's sniping and an election isn't even launched.
But at hand, I have to wonder how everyone will conduct themselves. Already, there's sniping and an election isn't even launched.
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I've been struck recently by how tiny Freeland seems to be. That may be one good reason she likes to wear red. And if she wears red because she's a Liberal, so what. Men wear red or blue ties to denote their party allegiance too.
I think it makes her look smaller. The dress kind of swallows her up in it. But whatever. She can wear what she wants, and like everybody else, I just want someone competent who will do the job the best way it can be done according to what I value in a leader, and what issues I'd like to see addressed - and that's why we each have a vote.
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But what does Freeland really think of the technocratic management under a plutocratic governance of society? In Plutocrats vs. Populists (Nov. 2013), Freeland lets her pro-plutocratic worldview out of the bag when she gushes:
“At its best, this form of plutocratic political power offers the tantalizing possibility of policy practiced at the highest professional level with none of the messiness and deal making and venality of traditional politics… a technocratic, data-based, objective search for solutions to our problems”
Since a technocratic managerial class committed to a common ideology must be solidified for this system to work, Freeland goes on to make the case to recruit young people to the imperial civil service:
“Smart, publicly minded technocrats go to work for plutocrats whose values they share. The technocrats get to focus full time on the policy issues they love, without the tedium of building, rallying– and serving– a permanent mass membership. They can be pretty well paid to boot.”
“At its best, this form of plutocratic political power offers the tantalizing possibility of policy practiced at the highest professional level with none of the messiness and deal making and venality of traditional politics… a technocratic, data-based, objective search for solutions to our problems”
Since a technocratic managerial class committed to a common ideology must be solidified for this system to work, Freeland goes on to make the case to recruit young people to the imperial civil service:
“Smart, publicly minded technocrats go to work for plutocrats whose values they share. The technocrats get to focus full time on the policy issues they love, without the tedium of building, rallying– and serving– a permanent mass membership. They can be pretty well paid to boot.”