Congressional Catfight: U.S. Lawmakers Give a Bad Name to 'Women Behaving Badly'
Recent behavior on the U.S. House floor made history for the wrong reasons.
May 29, 2024 at 01:42 PM
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Commentary"Bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body;" "fake eyelashes." These are among the insults thrown around last week in Congress by women in the U.S. House of Representatives. A new low indeed, for the whole country to watch and laugh at. And while women may behave badly just like men, what we saw last week was nothing to emulate and not what the great phrase often depicted on greeting cards —"well-behaved women rarely make history" — epitomizes.
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