Elizabeth Warren. Out TG! (And, no, not at all because she is a "strong" woman)

Particularly upon the collapse of Elizabeth Warren's campaign we started to (again) hear that the real problem for her was a supposed society-wide misogyny -- a dislike for women. Or at least, we are being told, for smart and bold women. For women who "do not know their place."

I say that is total bunk. I absolutely loathed Liz Warren. The thought of her having any power over any human being was enough to make me shudder. But such was hardly because of her being a 'she.'

The truth is I have always preferred women with strong personalities coupled with high intelligence and a deep independent streak. -That just as I prefer those qualities in men. And while I make no claim that such a 'liking' is universal, I'd say that it is very common, and more so now in America than at any time I can think of in the past.

At risk of offending... The dull like the dull. The fearful and weak prefer their own kind -- or to feel protected by a supposed 'daddy' or 'mommy' type figure. Or to have a polite, even-keeled, totally non-threatening person of either gender over them.

And it's that last phrase that to me really represents the fulcrum here: That of having someone 'over' us.

Some want that. Others don't. America traditionally has not. Neither to order us about OR to protect us from the risks that naturally come with living our own lives.

For me? Doing the later -- living my own life in my own way -- has always been what I suppose one could call "A#1." And doing that with a strong, thinking, independent woman at my side is -- and has been -- to me the ideal.

The thought of doing so with Elizabeth Warren at my side would be horrifying. And in this I think I am far from alone.

And thus (Thank God!) we saw her failed campaign.

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