Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

by Eleanor Herman

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. —George Santayana, philosopher, 1863–1952

“Burn the whore! Burn her! Burn her! She is not worthy to live! Kill her! Drown her!” It must have sounded rather like the 2016 Republican National Convention.

“When a company makes a cheese and sells it in supermarkets,” she said, “we are not trusting the cheesemaker. Someone is going to inspect the company, the machines, the supply chain, and then decide if the cheese is ready to go to market or if eating that cheese would have negative consequences. Social media companies started as a small thing, and nobody thought that there was any reason to regulate them. But now we know they have had an impact on democracy, on mental health, on the riots on the Capitol, so actually somebody needs to regulate them. They have not had a positive track record.”