A woman's worth

Here is a post from Ann Althouse about a Syrian program dissing Condoleezza Rice on her…looks of all the things - Althouse: “Her external ugliness reflects her internal ugliness.”

This is one of those things that pain me a lot about women speaking against women. It is never the capabilities of the woman that are called into question - it is always low-blows like her looks, her color, her marital status - what have you. The insults always spring back to how the woman compares to others in serving the patriarchy rather than what she is to herself and by herself.

I am sure many of us have heard women being catty on other women all the time. I admit I have done albeit in a jovial manner. If I were to insult another woman, I would make sure I would point out the flaws in her thinking abilities and intellectual capacity rather simply calling her a “cow”. How ridiculous that independent, successful women should still fall back to the age-old stereotypes of a geisha-like perfectness in a woman when it comes time to insult her.