I have huge respect for the way Nick Clegg's wife and partner, Miriam Gonzaliz Durantez has tried to keep herself intact and not give into the pressure to suppress her life, career, her identify as a woman in her own right behind her husband's career and new job.
I have no respect for Will Pavia who wrote in The Times on Saturday 15 May that she will be an asset to her husband because she beautiful and that "various hardnosed politcal hacks swooned slightly in her presence". What complete rubbish - not that she is in attractive women but that her asset is her beauty. What about her intellect, her thoughts and beliefs, her career, and her right to be visible and respected on her terms rather than just on what she looks like and her husband's job? And what about challenging the pure sexism that Nick Clegg's power is enhanced by his wife's beauty.
Have we not moved forward at all? It makes me sick seeing newspapers covered with skinny leggy women and their skinny bodies being presented as their source of power, wealth, and right to being visible.
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