Author: NC (---.231.4)
Date: 10-01-2001 17:39
Why not a post on "terrible women"? Like Medea, Judith, Milady deWinter, or Duchess Olga of Kiev? There's a 30-page book called Souviens-toi que je suis Medée, which I figure would go right for this column.
(Medea, if anybody's asking, was the wife of Jason th Argonaut and Daughter or Granddaughter of the Sun. When Jason tries to ditch her for another woman, she kills all of their (hers and Jason's) children. One of the reasons Jason gives for divorcing her is that she scares him, since the time she cut her brother into mincemeat to save his sorry ass. She also healed Hercules when Hera got him mad, and rode a winged chariot pulled by dragons. Also burned down the city which would cast her out. Also etc etc etc.)
Judith is from the Bible, Milady's from the Three Musketeers, and Olga from Russian History.
Somehow, beyond-morality is a category more often populated by women than men. I'm only remembering Egil Skallagrimsson right now for the male side.
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