what it feels like for a girl
Does the smiling bride in this photograph seem ever-so-slightly familiar? That's because this is
Margaret Thatcher in 1951, 8 years before she won her first election. In fact, it's before she "prettied" herself up in order to win that election, if the new film
Margaret Thatcher — The Long Walk To Finchley and her former Parliamentarian Edwina Currie
are to be believed. In her first two races, when she ran like a man would run, she kept losing so, according to the film and Currie, on the advice of her husband "She lightens her hair, modulates her voice from strident to low and sexy, wears tops that show a hint of cleavage and skirts that display a flash of leg," and then goes and cries to the guy in charge of picking candidates that she's being held back because she's a woman. We'd all like to believe that things have changed. But, I think after this primary season, we all know better that they haven't. And since they haven't, are you being smart by playing along, or stupid by giving in?
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