auscyclefan94 said:
What a sad day. Dislike or like her politics, you can not take away the fact that she had an enormous influence on the world we are living in today and where women are in society.
You cannot take away her influence on the world, but god I wish I could. A vile individual, who I will not mourn.
She epitomised feminism more than most self-proclaimed feminists. This is due to the fact that she took feminism from what many feminists held it as a socially left-wing ideology to a far broader sense.
You don't know what feminism is. It's not about being a woman and powerful, it's about challenging male-dominated structures of power and culture. She quite clearly did neither of those.
She is an inspiration to someone like myself and is one of the most influential politicians of the 20th century. Many of the things she said back in her term as PM ring true today.
You need to take a good long hard look at yourself son. She was a nasty, hate-filled woman and it is that hate that explains the negative reaction you see today. You can childishly describe it as "bitter", but I feel there are few better reasons to be bitter towards someone than that person doing their utmost to destroy much of what you hold dear, or what others hold dear.
She is rightfully and idol of conservatism, individual liberty and free markets.
She is an idol of negative liberty, and only in an economic sense. While Britain under her had the "freedom" to buy whatever you wanted and had lower taxes, there was a huge rise in homelessness and poverty, decreases in vital social housing and a chronic lack of investment in infrastructure. Not to mention her flawed economic policies sowed the seeds for today's troubles in this country.
Most importantly, she had conviction.
This should sort of go without saying, but conviction is only as good as the things you hold that conviction in. At the risk of being clichéd, convicted can be as much as a negative as it is a positive. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Pinochet (her good friend) and many others have all had "conviction". It is not a positive quality in and of itself.
Goodbye Margaret Thatcher
Goodbye indeed.