Sady Doyle on the Tragedy of Laura Bush's Selflessness

“But abnegating her own beliefs in order to stand by her man-even as he did things that affected innumerable lives, things she apparently knew to be wrong-was exactly ‘traditional,’ and the worst kind of tradition. The really troubling thing is how much people liked it: How a woman publicly enacting lack of engagement, lack of opinion, lack of self, was met with such sky-high approval ratings and such wide applause.”
–That’s Sady Doyle on the secret life of Laura Bush, and it is all kinds of oof.