PrintDecember 6, 2010
Politically Incorrect Powerful Women
TIME Magazine has come out with a list: the "The 25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century." Look it over. It is nothing more than a depressingly familiar collection of leftists laced with condescending tokenism to the rest of womankind. Jiang Qing, one of Mao's wives, who was purged almost as soon as he died, is on the list. So is Rachel Carson, the dishonest pseudo-scientist whose lies condemned millions of third-world children to death. There are two token conservatives, neither an American: Angela Merkel, who did not become chancellor until 2005, and Maggie Thatcher, who was too conspicuous to be left off. Consider who was left off the list. Claire Booth Luce was a prolific writer whose aphorisms like "no good deed goes unpunished" have become part of modern language. She was the editor of several national women's magazines; a nominee for an Academy award; the authoress of the famous play, The Women; a war correspondent who traveled to all theaters of...(Read Full Article)
