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Mama Grizzly (and other setbacks)
The Year of the Pink Elephant Women was enough to force our one-woman jury back to its annual task. Once more we celebrate suffrage by giving out the Equal Rites Awards to those who done their best over the past 12 months to set back the cause of women.
Before we get trampled, the envelopes please.
Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe | MA
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
And so we rise to celebrate Aug. 26, the 90th anniversary of the day American women finally won the right to vote. It took nine decades to get three women serving on the Supreme Court at the same time. But in politics, alas, we have gone from radical women chaining themselves to the White House fence to conservative women serving tea. Or at least the Tea Party.
What would Susan B. Anthony make of Sarah Palin as the most outspoken female politician in the land, or of Palin’s menagerie of groupies? The former leader of “pit bulls with lipstick” is now a “Mama Grizzly” intent on escorting a “stampede of pink elephants” — a.k.a. ultra-conservative female Republicans — to Washington.
The Year of the Pink Elephant Women was enough to force our one-woman jury back to its annual task. Once more we celebrate suffrage by giving out the Equal Rites Awards to those who done their best over the past 12 months to set back the cause of women.
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