The 113th US House of Representatives is not really notable in the fact that there was no woman appointed to chair a committee. There is, of course, a scarcity of women on the Republican side of the House anyway.
This after all the hot air about the importance of women during the election season.
So is it hate? Or do the men who continue to run the Republican Party just simply believe women have their place, supporting their men. As do "their" women in the House of Representatives.
I don't think the men on that side of the aisle consider women enough to hate them. For them, women have their place, as do the blacks and gays in the Republican Party. They may indeed hate those on the Democratic side, but I don't think they really give too much of a fig about those who want to be a part of the party.
Which to my mind is even worse than being hated. Because it is being irrelevant.
Have you done a count of Republicans vs Democrats in the House and Senate? Republicans were actually doing pretty well, last time I looked -- Michelle Bachman and Kaye Bailey Hutchison come to mind, but there were others. Living in the state with the fewest women in State elective office tends to distort the picture a little.
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