Supreme Court Battle of the Sexes
By Michael Boyajian
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival put on another brilliant performance at Boscobel of their interpretation of a William Shakespeare play, this time the Taming of the Shrew. The initial dialogue between Katherina and Petruccio as performed by Gabra Zackman and Richard Ercole enshrines Shakespeare as the greatest writer in the history of Western Civilization.
However, the battle of the sexes in this play did not age well after 400 years with women suffering inexcusable mental abuse in the story granted in the end love conquered all. I have always felt that after the Bush Jr. Administration men had lost all rights to rule the land. An exception was apparently allowed for Barack Obama probably due to his outstanding oratory but all in all it was now a woman’s world and nowhere was this more true than on the United States Supreme Court where we will most likely have three female justices with four or possibly five hoped for in the future.
But for now at least we will have three and this will launch the modern day battle of the sexes as the three women on the court battle the four conservative men in the greatest legal battle of all time. Unfortunately for the men this is no longer the age of Shakespeare when, but for a Queen, women were mere chattel. No, this is the 21st Century and women are equal to men even offering a fresh perspective on the world that gives them an edge in a male weary universe.
These tired conservatives with their extreme judicial activism will fall like a house of cards before the mental acuity of the female justices for there is one thing that I have learned after two decades of marriage and that is that the wife always wins the argument and even when you win you really lose. And though this may seem a condescending maxim it is that fate that the high court faces.
So stand aside Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia, a new age has dawned, the age of women is upon us and you men will dissolve into the inconsequence of a forgotten history for reason will triumph in the end over blind ideological faith.
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