To the Empowered Women
To the Empowered Women While I was googling those quotes on women, I happened to hit on some that almost knocked me down. Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous, or rather infamous, comment on women gave me the lightest blow as it was something quite familiar and bred nothing but contempt, “women are nothing but machines for producing children”. The French statesman taken granted for his 18 th century anti-feminine attitude sounded the least offending before the 20 th century English singer John Lennon, also the co-founder of the Beatles, who said, “there is a great woman behind every idiot”. I could hardly miss the autobiographical elements in it, nonetheless. More interesting were the sexist statements made by the American President himself. Trump once tweeted that sexual assault in the military is simply what happens when men and women work together—“ 26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women toge...