WRITING in Slate, Lionel Shriver says that Margaret Thatcher was a model feminist. British feminist commenters also say, in so many words, “Well, she was a powerful woman so she was one of us.” Liberals can’t conceive of a powerful woman who wasn’t a political narcissist so they rush to say she was really one of them.

The truth is, Thatcher did not see women as her favorite interest group and did not believe in restructuring British society so that women could attain power. She was comfortable with men in charge. Unlike Hillary Clinton, who made women her priority as Secretary of State, and unlike Christine LaGarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund who attributed the financial crisis of recent years to too much testosterone, Thatcher rejected the institutionalized enforced equality that is feminism. Thatcher is quoted as saying:

‘The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.’

Not only was Margaret Thatcher not feminist in her policies, but her demeanor was manly. She behaved by the standards of a male dominated world, not a world where the likes of Barbara Walters and Nancy Pelosi are in charge. As such, she was not a role model for most women because most women don’t want to be men. Little girls will never long for Margaret Thatcher dolls.

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