People never describe men being ambitious, organized, strategic, climbing up the ladder at work or socially, being successful at reaching certain goals, with such negativity as when WOMEN are described as such. And it's friggin 2018, and people are still throwing shade at women for doing the same things. Like there's something wrong for being ambitious, strong, goal oriented, organized, into many things, successfully progressing in career and life, doing causes because one actually believes in them.
Do you know what the ODDS are of Meghan Markle to be the one to land Prince Harry? She had even already gotten married once before. Oops! She must have gotten sidetracked from her goal.
She wasn't even living in England when she met him. I don't think working in a Commonwealth across the pond counts for much, if he was her goal.
Did Amal Clooney become a very good human rights lawyer, at a prestigious British law firm because she had George Clooney in her sights all this time? That all the cases she worked on and helped win were simply so that, one day, she'd KNOW someone who would finally be able to introduce her to George? Do you know what the ODDS are of landing George Clooney?
I remember when Barbra Streisand started directing. She was blasted for choosing
Yentl, as it was Jewish, and she did a movie that was about her and her life and what she knows.
Yet, every Literary 101 or Creative Writing course says "write about what you know." But, it doesn't count for her.
Yet, when Steven Spielberg did
Shindler's List, he admitted it's very much because he is Jewish that he did the movie. When he later, ambitiously created the Shoah Foundation to preserve the taped interviews of the existing Holocaust survivor's stories he was making while researching for
Shindler's, no one accused him of doing it for personal, political gain. Or that he was just creating a very important human rights foundation to
seem important, or that he was just being a social climber.
When Streisand took time getting cinematographic shots from a certain angles, she was being a neurotic perfectionist.
When Spielberg does it, he's an artistic cinematographic genius.
When Streisand put herself in
The Prince of Tides, she was again blasted for staring in her own movie. She was criticized for being too ugly to have played the role. She was also criticized for making a "chick flick" that primarily women would like, like that's a bad thing.
When Spielberg does his genre movies, again, he's a genius.
When Streisand went over budget for,
The Mirror Has Two Faces, because she had to do massive re-shoots after firing Dudley Moore because he an illness and replacing him with George Segal, she's thought of as unskilled or inexperienced or neurotic.
Yet, when most male directors go over budget, or take weeks longer on a film than scheduled, it's due to getting their artistic vision right.
All that was over a couple
decades ago. Wow, it's unreal to see how people still think so little of women and what we can and ARE doing that have nothing to do with men being the end goal.
, "how the hell do you have no clue that there's a national flower?"I wish I'd recorded CTV - I like Jann Arden very much; we have similar senses of humour and while she can get racuous, I imagine she would have kept a level of decorum.
But the event is over. And everyone has their opinions having watched it or bits of it on the news. So, now it's a free for all of opinions. I'm personally fine with that. It is the DIS after all. 
And the maple leaf IS our official floral emblem not this whatevertheheck berry. It's a bizarre choice.
