Jacinda Ardern: Harassment of a Prime Minister

  Great political leaders accept that being criticized is simply part of the job. However, in recent years, the volume of violence and harassment suffered by many public figures has reached vitriolic levels. Indeed, in our age of social media, clickbait, and the need for new content to be posted by the second, the art of vilification and objectification has become a constant. Something similar recently happened to the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Jacinda Ardern became the world’s youngest female leader when she won the 2017 election. A year later, we watched her go to the UN general assembly…