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Margaret Thatcher - Feminist Icon?

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OnlyANinja · 09/01/2012 11:06

The Guardian asks a number of influential women (apparently) but I'd rather ask MNers.

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EnjoyResponsibly · 09/01/2012 11:44

Little Gnu, if mock doesn't suit try bad taste instead.

LittleGnu · 09/01/2012 11:41

Shakey500, you clearly don't understand the word "mock". The same with IslaDoit. Buy a dictionary!!

SillyOldBear01 · 09/01/2012 11:40

No, the reason my parents had to move hundreds of miles to raise me and my sis in an inbred shithole , because she closed most of the shipyards in the north east.

LittleGnu · 09/01/2012 11:39

OnlyANinja Stating that Thatcher can't remember what she did is a statement of fact, not an insult...blimey!!

IslaDoit · 09/01/2012 11:39

It is enough to attack her for her actions. It is not acceptable or necessary to mock the illness too.

Shakey1500 · 09/01/2012 11:37

If "nothing is uncalled for" then what? You's like to see her stoned in the streets? Is that ok? Hung from the rafters? How about that, is that acceptable?

Fair enough to despise someone for their politics, the descisions they made, the effects they had. But to glibly throw in a remark about someone's illness is disgusting.

LittleGnu · 09/01/2012 11:37

Shakey500 It's not "mocking" you idiot, it's stating a simple fact, namely that she now can't remember what she did. Look up "mocking" in the dictionary...

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OnlyANinja · 09/01/2012 11:34

So, for example, you'd think it was OK to use racist language against Idi Amin? Hmm

Stuck to insulting/complaining about things that she voluntarily did.

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Shakey1500 · 09/01/2012 11:33

Mocking someone's debilitating illness is extremely low. There is no excuse.

LittleGnu · 09/01/2012 11:32

Shakey500 Nothing is "uncalled for" when it comes to that woman, she wrecked countless lives, that was very "uncalled for".

perceptionreality · 09/01/2012 11:26

Completely agree LittleGnu. I could think of a better title for the film about her than 'The Iron Lady'

And certainly she was no feminist.

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OnlyANinja · 09/01/2012 11:26

Interesting, I wonder who wrote that letter?

It's unlikely to be her personally. I wonder if at some point an advisor decided that in order to get to the top a woman couldn't be seen as being interested in "women's issues" or else she'd get sidelined.

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Shakey1500 · 09/01/2012 11:25

LittleGnu that was seriously uncalled for.

ShatnersBassoon · 09/01/2012 11:22

She wasn't a feminist. Here's a letter copied and pasted from the Guardian a couple of days ago, sent in by a woman who ran refuge for women escaping domestic violence in 1979:

? Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979 (Fiend or feminist?, G2, 6 January). I was running my refuge in Chiswick. What, as the first woman prime minister would she do for victims of domestic violence, I asked. I got a letter back to say that Margaret Thatcher was not interested in women's issues. A feminist icon? I think not.

bakingaddict · 09/01/2012 11:22

Not sure about this one.....

Although from relatively humble beginnings she strived and suceeded in getting to the top of her profession in a very male dominated scion of society she did have some seemingly feminist attributes BUT she never set out to further the cause of womens' rights or champion women in the workplace so I dont think she is a feminist icon, maybe an accidental feminist icon. While I admire anybody who has the drive and determination to suceed in acheiving their goals, I dont admire any of her policies, principles or what she stood for.

I also think she would probably not see herself as a feminist icon or have any support for the feminist movement

IslaDoit · 09/01/2012 11:10

No. She was no feminist. Therefore she's not a feminist icon.

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OnlyANinja · 09/01/2012 11:10

and now can't remember any of it

Rather below-the-belt to refer to someone's illness like that IMO.

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LittleGnu · 09/01/2012 11:09

Not a feminist icon, not an icon at all. An absolute disgrace in fact, who caused untold damage to this country and now can't remember any of it! Shame the rest of us can...

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