Humans need icons.
In case they don’t find people iconic enough to be raised to that pedestal,
they go to a rung lower and pick from there, but they have an immense need to
look up to someone, and immense reason to emulate.
As I write this
blog, which I have been desistING from for quite a while, for fear of seeming to
be a perpetual critic of, a new icon that has been rising on the horizon – Michelle
Obama.
She is performing
floor push ups on the Elles Degeneres show, Marching with cartoon characters at
some other place - waving to cheering crowds waiting to lap up all the oomph
that she so desperately tries to ooze. Of late, she was also seen at the high
pitch Oscar award ceremony that was held a couple of weeks ago and also doing
the “mom dance” at Jimmy Fallon’s show.
I don’t understand
why the first lady should be seen at the forums at which she is being seen
these days. Why, she must get so much of media coverage, and what merits her
that, other than being the spouse of the President of the United States.
But in a way it is
good to keep spouses engaged in meaningless yet mirthful activities, lest they
meddle with statecraft. Well, even by its liberal standards, there is no
gainsaying the fact, the mature and thinking American is finding various trysts
of Michelle with social media somewhat embarrassing.
To me, Michelle
Obama, despite her Harvard credentials, lacks class, and I am not guilty of any
black prejudice or white preference. I feel the same lack of class of in a
vigorously gyrating Malaika Arora or Katrina.
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