To not get the big deal about Michelle Obama?

[wellhellothereall]

She married a bloke who became president...so why is she so revered, because she married well? I just don't get it.

Donald - I don't disagree with what you say. Still not sure that deserves a standing ovation at the Grammys though. Anyway have downloaded the audio book now so off to have a listen

Good, good, ime people who have achieved a lot don't usually bother to diminish other people who have achieved a lot.
There's always exceptions of course.

Actually I think the OP has been an example of dignity... the thread was getting a bit personal and there have been a couple of truly bizarre posts.

She's been a very classy 1st lady. "When they go low we go high." Her down to Earth style. She gets ovations for her good character. Good character shouldn't be such an achievement... but I guess it is. :)

@Sheelala
Oh fuck of with your pretend logic

@wellhellothereall

Helmet I have achieved a lot in my own way. I'm not married to a president though so you will never know
Okay so you’re bitter about her being married to Barack Obama which is why you started this thread.
Let’s here what you’ve achieved in your own way

She's an incredibly intelligent woman who has used that intelligence and her position to bring attention to important issues and to make a positive impact to people's lives and causes.

I think that’s it isn’t it. We happen to know about her because she was First Lady but it doesn’t make her achievements any less or her any less worthy of admiration.

Women really hate women it seems. MO is truly inspirational and accomplished in her own right. I suspect she had a lot to do with Obama's success. As mumsnet points out all the time when you are married you are a team.
Sarah Brown and Cherie Blair are both incredibly accomplished women (the later totally vilified by the press). Both are just regarded as wives. It says more about us as a society than them as individuals.

Op doesn't admire Michelle Obama as much as she admires Anna Wintour. That says it all.

Only someone like Barack is good enough to be married to Michelle. He should count himself bloody lucky to have bagged himself someone as intelligent, funny, beautiful and supportive as her (and you know what, I bet he does!)

Yes it’s sad when women can’t see past societal misogyny to value their fellow women.

Cherie Blair, Sarah brown, MO all amazingly successful women but somehow that is dwarfed because their husbands held higher political office and they become merely wives- demeaned and judged on their looks or clothes and an assumption made that they have lower value than their spouse.

It’s actually really depressing.

MO is amazing in her own right. We possibly wouldn't know this without Barack, so I can see your angle OP, but it doesn't take away her brilliance.

@Ghanagirl I can't think of anything I would like less than being married to the president and have no desire to be married to Barack Obama. I have never said she is not worth admiration it is the extent of the gushing that confuses me, You however have made some incredibly disparaging remarks about Melina Trump. Presumably with your logic you therefore wish you were married to Donald ?

But we’d never have heard of her if she hadn’t married a U.S president.
That’s the point.
Same as most partners of someone famous.

Op she just is, it's become something of legends.

@wellhellothereall
Only you know the true motivation for your thread but despite many posters giving you information about MO you haven’t wavered from your stance.
Read the book then come back to thread.

Oh surferjet do read the thread will you.

She didn't marry a president. She married a man who became president and played a key role in that.

People gush over Kim Kardashian... er, someone remind me what she did again? There's lots of gushing that makes no sense to me, too.

And then there are sports heroes. Should it really make Lionel Messi hyper-gushed over b/c he's good at chasing a ball around a grass pitch? Seems so.

Seems so

Well of course. Adulation is acceptable when directed at a man.

that michelle, she'd still be working at a petrol station if she hadnt met Barack.

Ive achieved way more than michelle obama, you just havent heard about it.

that michelle, she'd still be working at a petrol station if she hadnt met Barack.

To be fair, alot of African American women don’t fit the sterotype. Look at the stats, they are the most educated group of women in the US, therefore takjng alot of the high earnjng jobs.

@Ghanagirl the real motivation for me thread? I think you must spend your life reading into things that aren't there. Perhaps that's why you come across as so aggressive?

Do you know what’s aggressive? Starting a thread on someone your clearly know nothing about, because your ‘confused’ by the admiration they get. What is the intent behind that, did you hope everyone would join you in slagging her off, but politely pretend thats not actually what your doing, just questioning why people like her. Oh so innocent !

Ok, I’ll rephrase that.
We’d never have heard of her if her husband hadn’t become a U.S president.
I can’t even remember who Obama was up against in his election runs let alone their partners.
Do you think everyone voted for Barack Obama because of Michelle? I remember this place after Obama won, you couldn’t move for women fainting at the mere mention of him ......’oooh he’s so gorgeous’ ......it really was cringe. not a mention of Michelle.
I’m sure she is lovely, but no lovelier, stronger, or more supportive than millions of other women.