If Showtime’s new series “The First Lady” is to be believed, being the president’s wife is one of the most thankless and frustrating jobs on the planet.
First ladies have given up their own ambitions, livelihoods, friends, and personalities, all in service of their presidential husbands.
They exist to remind the nation of domesticity and femininity and basically are meant to be seen and not heard. At least, that’s what the show suggests history has always tried to make them.
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