The Dress...or... How Shallow Can you Get??

So, yes ... our Head of State wore a hideous dress. There....i said it.
Does that make it ok to bash her? No...
Anyone who has the slightest chip on his shoulder came crawling out of the woodwork last night. To engage in one of the most puerile displays of playground bullying ever.
And yes, comments comparing her to a figolla or Fiona from Shrek ARE bashing her.

Apart from the shallowness of it all...

1. Funny how some of the people getting their knickers in a twist over the green concoction were petitioning for CHOGM to be cancelled, you know, just in case ISIS came over to murder some dignitaries and killed one of our own security in the process (the dignitaries. ..who cares about 'em; because of them our security wo/men's lives will be at risk..)

2. All this bile directed towards Madam President over a dress.
The woman clearly was wrongly styled.. when she was still an MP she dressed smartly...evidently, the person responsible for styling the President is not doing the job at all.
If anything, it is the stylist who deserves to be tarred and feathered.

3. Ultimately Madam President is a person too, and while I'm sure she is immune to this kind of crap, that doesn't make it right.

4. Why all the fuss? Because she's a woman? Because she's meant to look like some slyph like model?
Yes, she's meant to look good because she represents the country, but some of the comments last night questioned the sanity of appointing a woman president. I wonder whether all those women who gleefully jumped on the hate-bandwagon realised that they were essentially, at least indirectly, backing people who think that a woman should never have been made President.

5. Why all the praise heaped on the Royals? Why the looking up to them like they're some kind of sartorial demi-gods? Or the wistful "but they can afford it"..?
For starters, I'm pretty sure the infamous dress cost a small fortune..these horrible things usually do. Second, yes, the Royals are stylish but they were born into this not thrust into it, and in their long and illustrious lives, I'm pretty sure there have been a few faux pas along the way.

6. Is it testament to our innate bitchiness that while the green dress memes went viral in a matter of seconds, only very few people shared the photo of the dress choice for the evening?

7. Madam President may not be a fashionista but the role of a Head of State is not merely to be a fashion plate. There are other aspects to it which she fulfills admirably..
And yet, we bitch and tear her to shreds over a dress. 

Nice to see that our priorities are still straight!

P.S. (while I'm at it..)
Note to whoever put out the posts praising police/army officers to high heaven for simply doing their job in the "cold and bad weather"... ever heard the phrase "all included in the pay packet"?? Should a bit of wind and rain grind everything to a halt... are we still living in caves, ffs?
Do you even have any idea how stupid and parochial all the moaning about the weather sounds?
This is Malta, ffs...not the outer reaches of Siberia!

And no,I will not indulge in the usual "Nisthi nghid li jien Maltija" bullshit rhetoric that inevitably comes up in situations like this. Anyway, why the HELL should I be ashamed I'm Maltese?? If anything, I'm ashamed to say that certain idiots are Maltese....And that includes the incompetents, the totally ignorant and slipshod 'u iva,mhux xorta' brigade, and the hate-mongers.