25 4 / 2017
Melania Trump is another woman “Celebitchers” love to hate. I think they are so free with derision of her because she is a wife of “the enemy”. And they feel free to engage into some “therapeutical steam release” using her as a target dummy. There is nothing about Melania herself to justify this level of derision.
Almost every comment under the article starts with “ I don’t feel sorry for her”, “she made her choice” and so on.
As someone who grew up outside of the US I also find the US office of First lady to be archaic and patriarchal. And this is not a new position for me. I always thought so. For Europeans this concept of a whole family representing their country is too similar to monarchy. In addition, the office of the First lady is not official, unelected and is unpaid. The First Lady is treated as a property of her husband. And that is just not right. I don’t see how American feminists square the concept of the First Lady with women rights. No woman should be treated as a property or pressured into doing something she doesn’t want to just because of who her husband is. Again, for Europeans this is unthinkable.
Here is one of very few balanced comments on Melania I tend agree with. Especially about the bitchiness she provokes in others.

And here is another one, which is more representative of what you see BTL at Celebitchy.

Doesn’t any capitalist society operate on this principle? Especially one such as the US, which practices unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism? So it is OK that everyone else does it, just Melania is not allowed? Celebitchy is a wrong name for his site. It should be called Hypocrisy by any other name.