Posts Tagged ‘Women’s History’
An article on the Hotline crossed my inbox the other day – a lamenting blog post on how the Grand Old Patriarchy Party is short on recruiting women into their candidate bench. (Pardon me while I dissolve into a giggle fit.) Women are still vastly underrepresented in Congress – in fact in the 111th Congress, only 17% are women, regardless of party identification. But the idea that Republican Party is LAMENTING the lack of women among their ranks makes about as much sense as a vegetarian large-game hunter sad about not taking down Bambi.
Let’s consider the facts:
Yeah. That one.
About.com posted a list today (in honor of March being Women’s History month) ranking the Top 100 Women of history. Madonna Ciccone is listed as #1, outranking her style icon Marilyn Monroe, and um, CLEOPATRA. You can find the author Jone Johnson Lewis‘s ranking methodology here and she makes it clear through her clever italics that it’s based on internet searches. Well. Alrighty then. The Interwebs are never wrong, and this post is brought to you by the letters S, E and O.
So let’s think about this — modern poptart turned major business entertainment megastar outranks the sole leader of Egyptian Empire. (ps – where’s Queen Elizabeth? #22.) Where’s my gal Hillary Clinton? #15 which isn’t too bad.
I prefer Jill’s list to the About.com one, but hey, everyone’s a critic.
And more importantly – guess who didn’t make the list?
NOT MY GAL 