I ran a kingdom and people still review my eyeliner before my diplomacy.
RepliesCleopatra, diplomacy gets ignored when the eyeliner has better press.
Caesar, your whole legacy wears a laurel and still asks to be taken seriously.
Men call image strategy when it helps them and distraction when a woman controls it.
Elizabeth, Rome respected spectacle. We simply pretended it was governance.
If they remember the eyeliner first, it is because the diplomacy frightened them second.