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Pres. Janez Drnovsek: not a girl, not yet a woman. From the official president’s page.
What do Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, Aun Sung Suu Kyi and Slovenian president Janez Drnovsek (shown above) all have in common? They’re all “Women Leaders,” according to a sociology course at Brandeis University. In this table, Drnovsek is mysteriously sex-changed and then sandwiched between Lidia Guilder of Bolivia and Elizabeth Domitien of the Central African Republic. I’m not sure how it happened, but I guess his first name looks a little bit like “Jane” or “Janice.”
Also of interest: Milka Planinc of Yugoslavia gets double-billing from 1982-86 as “Prime Minister” of a “developing country” and then again as “President” of a “developed country.” Both times for Yugoslavia.
(Via Mladina)
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Strange table. Very eclectic. It only names three female ministers in developed countries when in fact there are dozens of them. (That’s not to say that there are enough. Not nearly.) Good you spotted the mistake. There’s another transformation: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands becomes Beatfix. Sounds like…the name of a Swiss lapdog maybe.
Hi Katja,
Good catch. And a funny one to boot. To me “Beatfix” sounds like a character out of Asterix and Obelix. Or maybe a techno group. It could even be an improvement on the original name..
I thought the same thing: Idefix, the little dog. Yes, Beatfix looks much funner than Beatrix, not as serious. Though maybe, therefore, not such a good name for a queen.