To think Vicky Pryce is a Feminist Icon. Sort of.

[OhLori]

Truly, apologies, if this has been done to death on MN.

I just thought. The Husband - what a wally ... and worse. Apart from perjury, caught speeding 4 times in just over a year, i.e. someone who is reckless and lawless on the roads (as well as the courts). Yet Liberals still defend him as a fantastic and amazing "environmental" MP (C4 Newsnight last night).

Wife supports him, because that what wives do! Did she question her moral compass at the time, who knows, too busy being part of a successful and powerful couple? She certainly revisited it later, proving either the "woman scorned" theory OR that she had never been completely happy with her "supportive" decision in the first place but had gone along with it AT A COST?

A cautionary feminist tale?

A feminist icon is someone whose work in the struggle for women's liberation and women's rights has made them famous. The Pankhursts, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Maya Angelou, Angela Davis, Emma Goldman, Marie Stopes...

What has Vicky Pryce done for the cause of women's rights?

is it just me that feels REALLY sorry for her, and for her kids

in fact, I pity him too as his kids hate him now

she massively fucked up, but.....sending them to prison? WTF? waste of money

and what about her kids???

sad sad tale. I am an angry twat and I would want to do something like that

wont now!!!

A woman who has destroyed the glittering career she made for herself and put her children through hell to get even with a man who she hoped would still abandon his bi-sexual mistress and return to the marriage is a feminist icon?

Well I never...

I do feel very sorry for her too, but she majorly fucked up with the way she went about all this.

What happened in their marriage-feel sorry for her
Her seeking revenge- I understand but she should have known better
Destruction of their family and prison- moderately sorry for her

I'd have thought she was anything but a feminist icon! In what way do you think she is, OP? I genuinely don't get it!

She's a fool.

But I do feel a bit sorry for her.

But I don't have much respect for her.

Makes a change to see a woman get angry, in public, take vengeance, show normal human emotion, instead of the good little wife act. I agree OP, she is more like a character you read about in history, at least living an exciting life, if unfortunate.

Of course, other women are so harsh women who stand out in some way, be it Vicky Pryce or Katie Price.

"What about her kids?" - Even the youngest is in his early twenties, it's not like she's leaving a crowd of young children without a guardian.

Anyway, she didn't spend too much time thinking about the impact her actions would have on the kids, so don't have much sympathy on that account I'm afraid.

Feminist icons don't fall to pieces because their husband leaves them, they don't plead the "I'm just a feeble woman who can't say no to my man" defence either. I feel sorry for her and think she has behaved stupidly.
I suppose if you're the sort of woman who views Lady Di as a feminist icon then Vengeful Vicki can join her in the "women who should have ignored the media and got on with their lives" camp.
Both seem to me rather sad women who expended too much energy on trying to make their exes miserable rather than trying to make themselves happy.

I think she has behaved like an idiot.

hoist with her own petard springs to mind.

Er, really? Is doing time for foolishly bailing out your eejit of a husband a feminist act, then? It's not one I aspire to.

YABU.

She acted like a spiteful, nasty woman who blabbed to the press for her own reasons and bit off more than she could chew in the end.

So arrogant that she thought she would be above the law whilst airing dirty laundry in public.

Not a feminist icon...more of an utter twat to be fair.

No and I don't get this "there was no victim in their original crime" chat - he was a sufficiently careless driver to rack up enough points to lose his license, that is why the sanction is there. What if he hadn't lost his license (I understand he did anyway) and then been involved in an accident? It would have been a big deal then.

She's Greek.