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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sophie Bateman

‘Dear Jacinda Ardern: Can you ever forgive me for my post-feminist cynicism?’

For someone who hasn’t cared about electoral politics in years, Jacinda Ardern’s resignation hit me weirdly hard.

A complex melancholy has settled in my calcified little heart in a way no other political news has since I had the hope punched out of me in December 2019.

I’m beginning to suspect I failed to give Ardern the respect she deserved, due solely to generational cynicism, just as a wave of worldwide misogyny threatens to wipe clean the slate of 50 years' worth of women's achievements.

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