The World Economic Forum is holding its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, with speakers from a wide range of disciplines making speeches and being interviewed for live and remote audiences. Canada newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke and gave his thoughts to the audience concerning feminism.
I’m incredibly proud to have a partner in my wife Sophie, who is extremely committed to women and girls’ issues. But she took me aside a few months ago and said Okay, it’s great that you’re engaged and modeling to your daughter that you want her empowered and everything, but you need to take as much effort to talk to your sons—my 8-year-old boy and my 2-year-old—about how he treats women and how he’s going to grow up to be a feminist just like dad. And by the way, we shouldn’t be afraid of the word “feminist.” Men and women should use it to describe themselves any time they want.
It’s nice to be reminded that a world leader can act and think like an adult and not a petulant narcissist.
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