Why Successful Women Terrify Us
From April 2012.
Think. Who is the scariest woman you can conjure? Does she have snakes writhing from her head? Razor eyes and sharpened teeth? Or is she in practical pumps and a power suit?
For the Financial Times’ Lucy Kellaway it is the latter. The columnist confessed in a piece on Sunday, “My successful female friends have started to scare me.” Her successful male friends (see: pudgy, balding), on the other hand, produce nothing but warm fuzzies.
She goes on to list the women she finds most frightening in the world: Madonna produces chills with her grinding and thigh-high boots; Angela Merkel apparently strikes fear with her bowl cut and lip pursing; Carla Bruni-Sarkozy loiters terrifyingly; Rebekah Brooks has that red hair; Marjorie Scardino dares to be the boss, while Margaret Thatcher and Anna Wintour terrorize tyrannically; Hillary Clinton‘s mere existence appears to scare Kellaway.