The kinda woman you'd detonate the Senate fo

Evan Derkacz
May 18, 2005Health

In the Republican pantheon, there are Good Women and Bad Women," writes Amanda. Terri Schiavo is a Good Woman: "brainless, wordless, unable to rebel against her parents...the kind of woman that makes sexist men feel like saviors...On the other side of the coin is... an insolent teenage girl who ran around with boys and got pregnant and now wants to get an abortion without notifying her father... Bad Women are disobedient and despicable and so low that often dealing with them is a task beneath a man. Enter the Sister Punisher, a woman whose willingness to turn on other women to curry the favor of sexist men knows no bounds." Voila! Judge Priscilla Owen... Read the rest...(Pandagon)

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