Interesting. Freedom from what and to do what? I want freedom very much - from the tyranny of other people, including the powerful in government, business, etc. Freedom to do what God equipped us to do. Freedom to speak and worship and defend myself, and to help others to do the same. But the freedom described here seems geared mainly to satisfying hedonistic whims (and to make money). In the Christian worldview, choosing to flaunt our wants in the face of our Creator results in another kind of slavery - to our passions. The greatest freedom comes from submission to the will of our Creator, who knows and loves us more than we can comprehend.
She doesn't sound free to me. She sounds like a whim-worshipper, as Ayn Rand would call it. To the extent that she has accepted the consequences for all of her actions, then good on her, but she should never have brought a child into the world with that hedonistic attitude. Having children is an obligation she chose and therefore should not have shirked, as apparently she did to some extent.
The part in the film where her fashion house has tanked so she goes on QVC to sell dresses is priceless. You have to admire her constant evolution and reinvention. Hey, whatever works!
For the title of First Girlboss one might more profitably look to less glamorous women, far from Paris and New York, like the late, great Rose Blumkin of Nebraska Furniture Mart.
Her daughter is a very private person. I've lived across the street from her for almost a decade and have never met her. I can only imagine growing up with a mother like that would make you pretty cagey.
A warning of being careful of what you wish for, her freedom and her fierceness in attaining it, frequently admirable , had ,as pointed out above, its limits. She seems cut from the same revolutionary cloth as so many of the gay men I first encountered in NYC in the early 80's, vestiges of the libertine 70's. Heartbreakers frankly. "Free", if that is what you call it, but also self obsessed and frequently cold hearted. Monogamy , tradition , faith, duty and family building all points of laughter and ridicule. She seems , with her glamour and allure, the paragon of that ideal.
That said, I have long admired her work, her tenacity and I admit her glamour .
Appreciative of an article not so rooted in this very moment, a relief from the current discord.
Interesting. Freedom from what and to do what? I want freedom very much - from the tyranny of other people, including the powerful in government, business, etc. Freedom to do what God equipped us to do. Freedom to speak and worship and defend myself, and to help others to do the same. But the freedom described here seems geared mainly to satisfying hedonistic whims (and to make money). In the Christian worldview, choosing to flaunt our wants in the face of our Creator results in another kind of slavery - to our passions. The greatest freedom comes from submission to the will of our Creator, who knows and loves us more than we can comprehend.
Sad story. She gives "freedom" a bad name. One might argue that she is enslaved to her passions and has not yet known freedom.
She doesn't sound free to me. She sounds like a whim-worshipper, as Ayn Rand would call it. To the extent that she has accepted the consequences for all of her actions, then good on her, but she should never have brought a child into the world with that hedonistic attitude. Having children is an obligation she chose and therefore should not have shirked, as apparently she did to some extent.
The part in the film where her fashion house has tanked so she goes on QVC to sell dresses is priceless. You have to admire her constant evolution and reinvention. Hey, whatever works!
For the title of First Girlboss one might more profitably look to less glamorous women, far from Paris and New York, like the late, great Rose Blumkin of Nebraska Furniture Mart.
Catherine the Great?
Nefertiti?
Deborah, Boudicca, Tamar the Great of Georgia, Joan of Arc, Ranavalona I of Madagascar...
Her daughter is a very private person. I've lived across the street from her for almost a decade and have never met her. I can only imagine growing up with a mother like that would make you pretty cagey.
Yeah, well, at least she didn’t marry Rupert Murdoch.
Yet ….
And I thought the ick factor was already maxed out on those two. Silly me. Sort of a gossip story about vampires.
A warning of being careful of what you wish for, her freedom and her fierceness in attaining it, frequently admirable , had ,as pointed out above, its limits. She seems cut from the same revolutionary cloth as so many of the gay men I first encountered in NYC in the early 80's, vestiges of the libertine 70's. Heartbreakers frankly. "Free", if that is what you call it, but also self obsessed and frequently cold hearted. Monogamy , tradition , faith, duty and family building all points of laughter and ridicule. She seems , with her glamour and allure, the paragon of that ideal.
That said, I have long admired her work, her tenacity and I admit her glamour .
Appreciative of an article not so rooted in this very moment, a relief from the current discord.
"Freedom" here just seems like selfishness and self absorption.
"Freedom"