Humans & History
Who is your favorite historical figure?
Margaret Thatcher. During my high school days, if a senior was considered mean spirited and thoughtless, she was dubbed a thatcher. No, I didn’t live or grow up in Britain, but Ms Thatcher’s reputation as the “Iron Lady” travelled far and wide especially in Africa where we remain in covet neocolonial ties with our colonizers where we receive heavy Western influences.
So I got curious about the woman Thatcher, sat through one mundane documentary and another mundane movie dramatizing her life, and watched the procession for her burial rites which I remember as having lots of security guards because they thought the masses might have tried to mob her corpse or something like that.
But looking at her life, her leadership styles, and her policies, all that’s obvious is a woman who believed in something, stood up for it, and made sure that it came to an expected end in an era where women were supposed to be docile and want things other than leadership, talk much of impactful leadership.
Because of women like Thatcher, it is sometimes difficult to sit through conversations where women claim that the times in which they lived is the reason they didn’t attempt life fully or own any ambitions. What I usually hear in these conversations are people who are stating that they didn’t have the courage to dare, they wanted to be accepted and safe much more than they wanted to create a change, and they would like to blame every other thing except their lack of courage.
But Margaret Thatcher, she was a woman who was honest to herself. She wanted different for her life, she wanted power, and she wanted power for the purpose of doing good for her people. She didn’t want power so that she can take it out on men.
If Margaret Thatcher sold me feminism? I’d totally buy it! But she sold Thatcherism, and that’s still a banger, and still better than the modern day war against the genders called feminism.
Anyway, where are you reading from and how high is the inflation rate in your country currently?
