Forbes High School Yearbook

Remember your high school year book that the popular kids were the editors of and made their friends the top of every list and highlighted pictures of them on what seemed like every page?

They apparently are now the editors at Forbes Magazine.

Yes, Forbes Magazine has released its list of the “100 Most Powerful Women in the World”, and from the get-go of the article it starts defending itself in saying that the standards are changing.

Obviously.

Number one on the list? First Lady Michelle Obama.

Forbes gives a biography listing why they feel she is powerful. It states that she has a fitness program for kids and that she is a style icon. Oh, and 54% of people like her according to a poll.

That is all it takes now to be considered the most powerful woman in the world? I am going to J. Crew right now and opening a store credit line.

If she were not the President’s wife, she would not be on the list. Period.

Harsh some might say? Possibly, but true. What warrants her being ahead of ten heads of state? Women who have control of countries, economies and people’s very lives in their hands every day are less powerful than someone who some consider to have style and popularity?

Forbes snubbed every woman who ever achieved anything by their own hard work and initiative at any level in life.

If you want to be powerful, you better marry up.

I do not agree with Oprah or Nancy Pelosi in regards to just about anything, but at least I can list more than their style choice as a reason that they are powerful, and I don’t have to think about who they married as to why they are considered so.

Ironically, #3 Oprah is so powerful, she was an arguable force in getting Obama elected, thus setting up the First Lady to take the top spot.

It is fitting that this title comes almost a year to the day of her husband being named a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. They both now have accolades that are completely unwarranted.

If the First Lady at number one wasn’t enough, they list Lady Gaga at #7. Yes, that woman who is so desperate for attention she must flaunt her sexuality to the point that it loses all sexiness, wears outlandish shoes that she can’t even walk in and has even been known to slap on a flank steak and call it a dress is considered more powerful than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the three women on the Supreme Court and nine heads of state.

If you don’t want to marry up girls, at least you know you can hooch it up and still make the list.

Some other head-scratchers who made the list? Singer Beyonce Knowles at #9, Talk Show Host Ellen DeGeneres at #10, Foul-mouthed entertainer Chelsea Handler at #35, Model Heidi Klum at #39 and Actress Sarah Jessica Parker at #45.

All of these women ranked higher than the Prime Minister of Australia, and Presidents of Ireland, Finland, Argentina, Iceland, Costa Rica, and Liberia. Not to mention the women who are the heads of multi-billion dollar companies.

With this list, Forbes Magazine reduced the list of power to nothing more than the part of your high school yearbook that listed “Most Popular”, “Best Dressed”, and “Cutest Couple”. The editors of both publications show obvious bias.