Tough Women: Witches and _____?

When Kathy Taylor Frame ran (and won) for the Mayor's race in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the only criticism heard was that she was not yet hardened to politics.  She let her mask down and let her emotions show when she was unjustly and unfairly thrown into the muckety-muck of being on the wrong side of dirty politics.

Condi Rice, playing on the world stage as America's face to the world, is dealing with tough times and tough issues.  At right, she was caught being serious on a  Reuter's billboard in London.  Her toughness is captured by a Central Park artist yet again.

MotherPie did a parody of a nice Rice as America's neighborly face to the world (article on American Gothic here).  The  illustration with Mr. Rogers, the perennially nice neighbor for a generation of kids, below right, signifies our inward and outward cultural relational ambassadors.   

Dood Abides won a Kofax award for his humorous post including Condi Rice as the Wicked Witch of the West.

Are angry women unacceptable  but angry men are tough? Powerful women just have lady balls.