RIP Margaret Thatcher  [Content Note: Misogyny; violence.]
Former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, the first—and
still only—female Prime Minister, who served from 1979 to 1990,
has died at age 87.  Margaret Thatcher was a radical
conservative, and I don't have anything kind to say about her
politics. She would not have had anything kind to say about
mine. She was the ultimate Exceptional Woman, and, irrespective
of one's opinion about her choice to play that role, it was
central to her attainment of the prime ministership. She was not
the first, nor would she be the last, woman to understand that
many glass ceilings, especially in politics and business, are
broken by conservative women who make much about being just one
of the guys, but also being a traditional wife and mother—just
not like those other simpering, foolish, womanly wives and
mothers.  And, like all the other powerful female leaders before
and after her, Thatcher weathered mountainous amounts of
misogyny.  There were a plethora of inci