# Candidates for Least Favorite Female Human Being **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 17, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988 "2014-06-17T14:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/101 "2014-06-18T04:59:31Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > 1. Hillary Clinton > 2. Janet Reno > 3. Nancy Pelosi > 4. Gail Zappa > 5. Joycelyn Elders Gail Zappa? What’s your issue with her? How about Jenny McCarthy? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/102 "2014-06-18T05:00:28Z")
Strange no one has said “my mother-in-law”. I guess massively disliking mother-in-laws must simply be something you only see in the movies/TV. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/103 "2014-06-18T05:06:02Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Well, good news for my ex-girlfriend, since it means that I can’t kill her for a while yet. Technically the rule only says _“Must be alive as of the time you put the name down.”_ Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/104 "2014-06-18T05:07:06Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Strange no one has said “my mother-in-law”. Maybe if you told us more about her. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/105 "2014-06-18T06:27:01Z")
I’ll nominate [Somaly Mam](http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/30/somaly-mam-holy-saint-and-sinner-sex-trafficking-251642.html). LIke most anti-trafficking fanatics, a scam artist on the make for money. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/106 "2014-06-18T06:59:46Z")
**New rule** (ignore me, I don’t make the rules, but anyway, new rule): You may nominate anyone you like, but when challenged to present actual reasons why they are your least favorite, you should be able to come up with some. I’d like to challenge some of these names. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/107 "2014-06-18T07:13:14Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Obama Derangement Syndrome has now become Michelle Obama Derangement Syndrome. Reported for criticising the MODS! 😜 ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/108 "2014-06-18T10:30:26Z")
I’d suggest that, if you do the polls March Madness style, you do at least some seeding of the nominations. It’s a little more work, but it ensures that women who received multiple mentions here or seem particularly likely to do “well” aren’t paired against each other in the earliest rounds. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/109 "2014-06-18T10:38:52Z")
For me, the names that came to mind were **Jenny McCarthy** and **Nancy Grace**. I really want to stay away from politics, but I must point out that **Michelle Malkin** hasn’t a brain in her head, and is just generally nasty. All of the votes for the first ladies are fairly ridiculous. Even Nancy Reagan, who was a bit of a loon and wound up bolstering some terrible public policy, was basically a nice old lady who was trying to do some good. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/110 "2014-06-18T11:02:27Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Strange no one has said “my mother-in-law”. > > I guess massively disliking mother-in-laws must simply be something you only see in the movies/TV. You know, I was going to mention my ex mother-in-law in this thread, but even the process of typing out why she was awful started to make me unhappy. Maybe many of us with terrible in-laws or other relatives just don’t want to put themselves through talking about them. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/111 "2014-06-18T11:04:53Z")
If there is now officially a “dead” category, chuck in [Elizabeth Báthory](Elizabeth Báthory) and [Bloody Mary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England), for completeness’ sake. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/112 "2014-06-18T11:34:09Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > She’s been mentioned more than once, so her place in the Pantheon of Pathetic is assured! I missed that. Sorry. I wasn’t trying to pick on her; for all I know she is a saint to people who I never hear about, volunteers at soup kitchens, and has given a kidney to someone who needed one. Maybe not her own kidney… but its the thought that counts… ---
**Author:** ![StayseaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@StayseaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StayseaDee)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/113 "2014-06-18T11:35:57Z")
Gwyneth Paltrow. Ugh. Can’t stand her. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/114 "2014-06-18T11:50:09Z")
> [@](#): > > ``` > [Bricker](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?u=3665) > > ``` > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/statusicon/user\_offline.gif](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif) > > And Full Contact Origami > SDSAB > Join Date: Dec 1999 > Location: Northern Virginia > Posts: 42,401 > > ``` > Quote: > Originally Posted by **Zeldar** [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/buttons/viewpost.gif](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17469851#post17469851) > Say we wanted to have a poll for the title subject. Who would have to be on the slate to make it a believable poll? Only one restriction, please. Must be alive as of the time you put the name down. > > ``` > > Add to this list if you will: > > Sarah Palin > Ann Coulter > Lindsay Lohan > Any Kardashian > > So – let me be sure I understand the question. > > “Least favorite human being” is the category to which you seek nominations. > > And somehow Pol Pot; Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann; Josef Stalin; Lawrence Brewer, John King, and Shawn Berry (dragging death of James Byrd); [Dean Corll](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Corll); Idi Amin; Tomás de Torquemada; or Rasputin never came to mind? > > But Sarah Palin did? Palin is not a saint, perhaps, but her worst crime is probably being dumber than a box of dirt. Ann Coulter is full of hate, but so far as I know, she did not ever inflict strappado on another human being. Lindsay Lohan? She’s a pitiable addict who has a gift for acting and an inability to control her addictions that means she’s thrown away the kind of career that others would kill for – but Lohan hasn’t killed anyone, not even herself (yet). > > Seriously. Yes, seriously - \ I seem to read "Least favorite female human being\> and last I checked, Torqumada, Pol Pot and Idi Amin were males and not females … so they really do not count. I might add the Bitch of Belsen [or whatever the hell her nickname was, Irma, Ilse?] as she was pretty evil. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/115 "2014-06-18T11:57:14Z")
Here’s an updated list of the names mentioned so far (as of Post #114) =================================================== Straight Dope Message Board \> Main \> In My Humble Opinion (IMHO) Candidates for Least Favorite Female Human Being \*\*\* Politics / Political Commentary Madeline Albright Michelle Bachman Jan Brewer Barbara Bush (the old woman, not her granddaughter) Hillary Clinton Ann Coulter Stephanie Cutter Joycelyn Elders Jane Fonda Nancy Grace Rachel Maddow Michelle Malkin Somaly Mam Winnie Mandela Michelle Obama Sarah Palin Nancy Pelosi Nancy Reagan Janet Reno Condoleezza Rice Phyllis Schlafly Lea Thompson (TV journalist) $$$ Entertainment Farrah Abraham Roseanne Barr Rhonda Byrne (author) Miley Cyrus Bethenny Frankel Lady Gaga Janeane Garofalo Kate Gosselin Elisabeth Hasselbeck Anne Hathaway Katherine Heigl Paris Hilton Laura Ingraham Victoria Jackson Kris Jenner Kim Kardashian Jean Kasem (Casey Kasem’s wife) %%% Kyle’s mom Lindsay Lohan Jennifer Lopez Courtney Love Omarosa Manigault Jenny McCarthy Heather Mills McCartney Heidi Montag Rosie O’Donnell Yoko Ono Gwyneth Paltrow Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi Joan Rivers Laura Schlessinger Judith “Judge Judy” Sheindlin Sarah Silverman Britney Spears Kristen Stewart V. Stiviano Taylor Swift Oprah Winfrey Gail Zappa ### “In The News” Beverly Allitt Casey Anthony Lorena Bobbitt Charlene Gallego Gina Hancock Karla Homolka Katherine Knight Susan Smith Nadya (Octomom) Suleman Marybeth Tinning Rosemary West Tracey Wigginton Andrea Yates +++ DEAD +++ Tammy Faye Baker – dead Elizabeth Bathory – dead Irma Grese – dead Leona Helmsley – Dead, yes, but likely the biggest bitch in hell. Myra Hindley – dead Ilse Koch – dead Delphine LaLaurie – dead Jiang\_Qing – dead Ayn Rand – dead Margaret Thatcher – dead Aileen Wuornos – dead =================================================== ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/116 "2014-06-18T13:12:27Z")
Grandstanding by either side after Gabby Giffords was shot made me ill but Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was particularly revolting. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/117 "2014-06-18T13:41:59Z")
Mary Matalin can be added to the politico list. She and her husband are a matched set of assholes. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/118 "2014-06-18T13:54:19Z")
From the compilation list above, Mother Teresa is missing from the “dead” list. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/119 "2014-06-18T13:57:47Z")
Please consider naming [Your Top Ten Least Favorite LIVING Female Human Beings](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17472856#post17472856) as part of an effort to narrow down this large list. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/120 "2014-06-18T14:01:34Z")
> [@Scribble](#): > > You know, I was going to mention my ex mother-in-law in this thread, but even the process of typing out why she was awful started to make me unhappy. > > Maybe many of us with terrible in-laws or other relatives just don’t want to put themselves through talking about them. It would not look well at the trial. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988.md?page=7)