Some women

There are people out there who think I defend all women all the time simply because they are women. This week's news events cause me to underscore there are plenty of toxic women out there. We have them in Multnomah County, Oregon, and the nation. I've made my feelings about the County pretty clear, but these women discourage me the most because they purport to be open-minded liberals. Nice try, girls.

Mary Starrett, who officially announced her run for governor , makes no secret that she is going to turn Oregon into a mini-theocracy, where government interferes with nothing except women's rights, presumably because God pre-ordained women to be nothing more than vessels and care-givers. Although, I don't think she has any hope of winnning a large number of votes, let alone enough to win the governor's seat, we should watch these kind of women who want to gain their own power at the expense of other women.

Then there's that viper of a woman, Ann Coulter. No one can honestly agree with the remarks she makes in her book about the widows of 9/11. Because of the negative publicity, her book will, nonetheless, make incredible sales and she will continue to have a forum for her evil takedown of other women. Perhaps she's just hungry. She looks a little peaked to me, and I know, when I get hungry, I get cranky. I'm jokingly trying to find some benefit of the doubt to give her, but seriously, she makes women look bad. She is the embodiment of the message perpetuated by mysogyny since women began entering public life that the only rewarded women are those that hurt other women. Isn't it time to see these women for who they are? Hypocrits. How about a little more focus on women who help other women? Women like Governor Barbara Roberts, Gretchen Kafoury, Justice Betty Roberts, Gail Shibley, Tina Kotek, and many more who are committed, both individually and institutionally, to surrounding themselves, and us by default, with talented energetic and positive women. Where's that news coverage? I know, I know. It isn't as sexy as a catfight, and if women aren't sexy, my God, what are we? Just ask Ann who thinks Playboy should be the next step for the widows. It's exhausting.