It’s Time to Recognize Melania Trump’s Agency and Hold Her Accountable Too
It’s going to be interesting to see whether Melania continues to play by her own rules, or whether she grows into the more traditional aspects of the FLOTUS. She’s already starting to become a bit more of a D.C. presence — on Wednesday, as her husband works to dismantle the nation’s health care system, Melania visited the Children’s Hospital and issued a statement extolling the virtues of “nature’s elements into our daily lives.”
One thing is for sure — she’s not a cartoon figure of a victim or a vixen. And projecting these assumptions onto her not only keeps us from recognizing her for the fully formed human being that she is, but also prevents us from holding her fully responsible for her words and actions.
She’s not the unconventional first lady many of us hoped for, but she’s the one we’ve got. It’s time to hold her accountable for that.
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