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From the Online: ‘G20 leaders’ wives’: Yes, this is 2009, and the Guardian is asking what are they wearing

  • MadameDotty · 2 months ago
    Anything to sell newspapers, I guess. Celebrities' frocks always give people something to talk about. ;)
  • Adam Tinworth · 2 months ago
    I want to know what Angela Merkel's husband was wearing...
  • SteveJackson · 2 months ago
    The Guardian does this every time. It seems just so obviously stupid that I think they are trying to be ironic.

    I think it's part of a wider social change that follows the USA. "Liberal" is not cool so we have to be ironically sexist and patronising.

    "Let's write about the wives dresses and when the old style socialists types criticise us we'll scoff at their eighties sensibilities."

    It's the same way of thinking that makes it acceptable for Catherine Tate to make a career caricaturing the working classes.

    Poor is out. Liberal is out. Equality is old hat. Ironic sexism and "don't criticise me look at the stats" racism is back in.

    Such is New Labour, such is the Guardian. We've got the Government the Guardian deserves.