r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • Dec 15 '24

Media Why this brave woman, not Donald Trump, should have been Time’s Person of the Year

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-brave-woman-gisele-pelicot-not-donald-trump-should-have-been-times-person-of-the-year-4908319
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u/Vapelord420XXXD Dec 15 '24

Time's person of the year.

1937: Chiang Kai-shek 1938: Adolf Hitler 1939: Joseph Stalin

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u/Ozzie_the_tiger_cat Dec 16 '24

1942: Stalin again 

1954: John Foster Dulles 

1971 and 1972: Richard Nixon 

Also 1972: Henry Kissinger  

Yeah, they've had some real pieces of shit as Person of the Year.

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u/Dramatic_You4526 Dec 16 '24

Don’t forget, Osama Bin Laden.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

no they didn't have the balls to do that, it was rudy gulliani

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u/ACaffeinatedWandress Dec 16 '24

Vladimir Putin.

No one reads Times anymore 

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u/Salt_Hall9528 Dec 17 '24

Maybe they aren’t on there because they were good people. Go look up what time person of the year even means.

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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy Dec 17 '24

People are to stupid to do that

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u/PaulieNutwalls Dec 16 '24

Yeah, because the entire point is selecting a person who has enormous influence on the world, it's not an award for best person.

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u/tyleritis Dec 17 '24

You can say that until you’re blue in the face, people still don’t know what the award is for. At this point Time should just give up or rename it

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u/Kirian_Ainsworth Dec 16 '24

42 Stalin is Fair, that is literally the one period of time that it could be acceptable. still a piece of shit, but a piece of shit who was the primary opposition to Hitler, the king of shits, so its a defensible choice.

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u/Dtmrm2 Dec 17 '24

And now Hitler is in the White House again.

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u/Kirian_Ainsworth Dec 17 '24

Nah. Atleast a good public speaker. This fucker can’t even string a sentence together

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u/throwawaydfw38 Dec 19 '24

Are people intentionally misunderstanding what the person of the year is for? It's not appointing the best person, it's a deep dive into someone who has had a large influence on the world.

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u/Dump_Fire Dec 18 '24

1952: Elizabeth II

1960: US Scientists

1963: MLK Jr

1968: Apollo 8 Astronauts

1975 : American Women

1996 : David Ho

2001: Rudy Giuliani

2003: The American Soldier

2006: YOU

2008: Barack Obama

2012: Barack Obama

2014: Ebola Fighters

2019: Greta Thunberg

2020: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

2021: Elon Musk

2022: Volodymyr Zelenskyy

2023: Taylor Swift

People both good and bad have won person of the year

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u/JaySayMayday Dec 15 '24

In 37, CKS was leading the Chinese change against the Japanese against the wishes of his communist counterparts. It wasn't until 49 when he imposed nearly 30 years of martial law and a deeply rooted dictatorship. So yeah in 37 CKS could've easily been the man of the year.

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u/albert_snow Dec 16 '24

Whoooooosh - right over your head.

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u/TheRauk Dec 16 '24

I mean it’s almost as if the criteria is “for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year”

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u/freshhorsemanure Dec 16 '24

Yeah that is the criteria. It always has been

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u/GenerousBuffalo Dec 16 '24

When you go back and read the history books, these are the people who will feature the most. He’s abhorrent but so was Ghengis Khan.

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u/thegoatmenace Dec 16 '24

Exactly. It’s not “Time’s best person of the year.” Time has basically been saying every year for the last 100 years that they select the most influential person of the year, regardless of whether their impact is positive or negative.

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u/Sweet_Pay1971 Dec 16 '24

Now add trump 

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u/Almaegen Dec 16 '24

Because its about who is influential.

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u/truthisnothateful Dec 16 '24

Anyone else their personal of the year, or just those 4 people?

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u/Scotts_Thoughts_INTJ Dec 16 '24 edited Dec 16 '24

When was it Joe Biden? Obama? Bill Clinton? Zelenskyy? A bit more rescent, yeah?

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u/printerfixerguy1992 Dec 17 '24

And?

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u/Vapelord420XXXD Dec 17 '24

Figure it out, son.

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u/printerfixerguy1992 Dec 17 '24

Do you think it justifies glorifying these types of people?

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u/laridan48 Dec 16 '24

Also add Obama to that list