What women can learn from ‘overrated actress’ Meryl Streep (Watch)

 

This speech of Streep led to US President Donald Trump getting even more agitated. She seems to have really touched a sore spot with Donald Trump at the Golden Globe awards.

 

Not one to take things lying down or for that matter anyone questioning or criticising his policies, Trump was quick to respond saying that Streep was “one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood”.

 

Even before the Golden Globes incident, Streep has time and again voiced her opinion against the establishment. She has not at anytime worried about what the consequences of standing up against the US President Donald Trump and has called him on his views regarding women, his protectionist policies and his scathing comment on a disabled reporter.

 

At the Human Rights Gala, she told attendees that in the end, the current administration could serve as a valuable wake-up call. “If we live through this precarious moment . . . if his catastrophic instinct to retaliate doesn’t lead us to nuclear winter, we have much to thank this president for, because he will have woken us up to how fragile freedom really is,” she said. “The whip of the Executive can, through a Twitter feed, lash and intimidate, punish and humiliate, delegitimise the press and imagined enemies with spasmodic regularity and easily provoked predictability,” she said referring to Trump’s muffling of the press and other policies put in place by him.

 

Addressing Trump’s comments she said, “Yes, I am the most overrated, over-decorated, and currently, over-berated actress . . . of my generation,” she joked. “But that is why you invited me here! Right?”

 

 

Streep, who received her 20th Oscar nomination in January, said the weight of all her honours compels her to speak out, despite the fact that it goes against her natural instincts to do so.

 

With all that has happened in Bengaluru off late, is known to all. A negative opinion of the city, its dwellers, the safety of women has become widespread. Namma Bengaluru, as it is called, needs the help of its citizens, its women to prove that we are a #CityForWomen. Few have dared to speak in favour of the city amidst all this blame game, but Asianet Newsable’s #Pinkaluru campaign invites all of you to participate and together bring back the city its lost glory.

 

One doesn’t need to be a higher up, or an actress like Meryl Streep to speak out against what is wrong. Women, in particular, can learn from Streep to take back the city, to question the status quo and to change the narrow mindset of small minds who constantly seek to bring them down.

 

Be brave, stand up against what you feel is wrong, just like Streep does and that is what is called empowering yourself. Once women learn to do that, they will empower a city to answer back to those who are bringing it a bad name.

 

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