Response to When Women Rule

Your article failed to make mention of Joseph Campbell's analysis of pre-Patriarchal religions in the Mid-East and surrounding areas. Such violent cultures of the Bull-Worship of Anatolia and the Serpent religions of Kush Arabia that influenced the later interpretation of the Hellenic character of Medusa were in fact Matriarchal religions that had powerful women. Kush culture had dominant Queens and female leaders and warriors. If you look at the later evolution of Islam (with it's Abrahamic Patriarchal influences), you begin to understand that the vast history of women in power is one of conflict, alienation, devastation, abuse and tyranny. It is hard for the politically correct crowd to swallow... but the pre-Patriarchal cultures were not nice to live in. We might today have such bias as to think that Islam is worse then these serpent religions, but we would be ignorant if we thought this.

I can see from the Jimmy Carter video that the Public Relations people are still controlling the NYTimes.

Further from reading your article you seem to blame democracy for holding women back? Are you saying that women are not strong enough to influence people outside of they're little circle? What kind of leadership is that?

NONE AT ALL! Stop it with the double standard.

original NYTimes piece is at the following address
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10kristof.html