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Allen West's Trail Of Misogyny: Compared Women To Spartans

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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks7/20/2011 5:19:02 pm PDT
In the same speech, West compared conservative women to the women of Sparta, who he claimed were the real strength behind the men of the ancient Greek city-state.

Heh. There’s an old tale of a Spartan warrior complaining to his mother that his sword was too short for battle.

She said “Step forward, and it shall be long enough”, basically implying her son was acting cowardly. If that ain’t a kind of neutering…