Ivanka Is Where Feminism Goes to Die
Spot on critique.
Trump’s ‘girl power’ photo-ops are a trendy accessory at odds with her father’s policies—but that’s what happens when we treat feminism like trickle-down empowerment.
Erin Gloria Ryan
03.07.17 1:08 AM ET
Since her father was sworn in as president of the United States, Ivanka Trump has made it her mission to do the feminist version of having her cake and eating it, too.
She’s apolitical, for the sake of her lifestyle brand, but very political, for the sake of her public image in the press. She is not taking an official role in the administration, but she is extremely involved in the goings on of the administration. She is not the functional first lady, except she is, a little bit. Ivanka is the sound of one hand clapping.
Even apart from her beauty pageant locker room-strolling father, Ivanka does a perfectly adequate job implicating herself as a hypocrite on her own. Back in December, my colleague Lizzie Crocker called Trump a “soft-focus feminist” engaged in a delicate balancing act between expressing allegiance to an ideology and actually doing anything concrete to realize that ideology. Crocker wondered what would happen to Ivanka as she moved from campaign to West Wing, if she could maintain her contrived blandness in the face of real adversity.
It appears that, at least thus far, Ivanka is trying to carry on as normal as the world spins into chaos around her. Her social media presence is so divorced from the Washington pandemonium her father has authored that it seems like she might be Instagramming from an alternate universe. She is Scarlett O’Hara dressed in drapes.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/07/ivanka-is-where-feminism-goes-to-die.html
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