# Candidates for Least Favorite Female Human Being

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/141 "2014-06-19T07:27:25Z")

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I hate, hate, hate Nancy Grace with the fire of a thousand suns.

I hate, loathe and despise Rosie O’Donnell and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

I loathe, detest and despise Hillary Clinton, but for some reason I don’t understand I find I can’t quite bring myself to say I hate her.

The two (make that three) things I despise about her most (in ascending order) is her proclivity to use her husband’s coattails to shoehorn herself into positions of governance that she never elected to perform; her smug, arrogant demeanor; and her stunningly dishonest nature and willingness to lie at the drop of a hat anytime she thinks it benefits her to do so. I’ve often thought to myself that she and her husband lie just like they breathe - constantly and all the time!

I was in a convenience store earlier this evening, and, while waiting to pay for my yummy bottle of chocolate Muscle Milk, spied the latest copy of _The Globe_ tabloid, which is the real life embodiment of the reputation that the _National Enquirer_ has. For decades this piece of crap publication has thrived on articles that are totally made up bullshit such as _“The Queen is dying!”, “Camilla’s Evil Plot to Seize the Throne!”; “Obama SLAMS Michelle - 'If I LOSE IT’S YOUR FAULT!”; “BILL CLINTON - 6 MONTHS TO LIVE!”_ - etc., etc., etc.

I’m not making this up: as I stood there looking at this piece of crap publication it occurred to me that the _The Globe_ and Hillary Clinton were just the same: you can’t believe a thing either of them says!

And yet people who should know better still buy _The Globe_ every week despite the fact that none of its claims ever come true, while others who also should know better continue to listen to and support Hillary Clinton. Go figure.

I’ve often wondered whether she and Bill (whose career-long propensity for lying exceeds even that of his wife) don’t get together behind closed doors and snicker to themselves over how they can lie and lie and lie and lie (and even get busted doing so), and yet still get people to vote for them.

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**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 19, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/142 "2014-06-19T08:35:11Z")

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I currently have eighty-nine names on my master list. I’m going to keep accepting nominees until we hit 128 names. And then we’ll start the competition.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/143 "2014-06-19T09:46:56Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I currently have eighty-nine names on my master list. I’m going to keep accepting nominees until we hit 128 names. And then we’ll start the competition.

This is starting to like it will be a list of the 128 most well known female celebrities currently alive. If Nancy Grace isn’t #1, it will have no credibility in my eyes.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/144 "2014-06-19T12:11:32Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I currently have eighty-nine names on my master list. I’m going to keep accepting nominees until we hit 128 names. And then we’ll start the competition.

This seems quite reasonable and oughtn’t take many more weeks to accomplish. Have you included any new names from the Top Ten lists in the separate thread I started? I’ll try to collect all the ones mentioned so far but a MUST HAVE is **Honey Boo Boo** who has risen into my own Top Ten for sure.

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**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 19, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/145 "2014-06-19T12:36:15Z")

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This thread is starting to sound an awful like a “Hate List” with individual contributions by separate people all piled onto what is (seemingly) a “THE SDMB HATES _insert name_ LIST”

We don’t all hate everyone the OP has mentioned, they are a combined list of a lot different people’s likes or dislikes. Still, 10 years from now all these women will think that the entire board hates every single one of them, which is completely and totally untrue.  
At this time, I’m opting out because for me, staying in this thread beyond this point would make me worse than a lot of the women named.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/146 "2014-06-19T12:51:17Z")

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> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> At this time, I’m opting out because for me, staying in this thread beyond this point would make me worse than a lot of the women named.

If my opinion matters, it will be those SDMB participants whose names are associated with the “Final Voting” thread(s) who will be blamed for the SDMB Consensus “We Don’t Appreciate You” List. So bailing out now (or failing to join in after this point) should not hold you liable for any ego damage done to these marvelous human beings.

So far, for me anyway, it’s just the flip side of the “My Favorite Human Beings” concept that seems much more prevalent, not just here but in places like _Maxim_ where the entire female population is subjected to bracket style competitions for “who’s most likely to tighten your undies” sorts of things.

I do appreciate (and pay attention to) the negative comments about the thread and the idea behind it, so more objections are certainly welcome.

I would just hope that the sort of female whose name is making the list might examine how much “love” she’s receiving from the general public and weigh it against the opposite reaction she’s getting here. Do you think any of these ladies will modify their behavior or image to try to win our appreciation?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/147 "2014-06-19T13:11:15Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> II would just hope that the sort of female whose name is making the list might examine how much “love” she’s receiving from the general public and weigh it against the opposite reaction she’s getting here. Do you think any of these ladies will modify their behavior or image to try to win our appreciation?

Not really; I think your logic is all wrong. It’s kind of like the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference - the worst thing for any of these people is probably to be ignored. Think of professional wrestlers, does anyone care if they play the heel or the good guy as long as they’re in the main event?

Beyond that, you really cannot be famous or noteworthy for very long if you don’t take, or represent something controversial. We live in a culturally divided country, as such, our celebrities will fall along those lines. I saw a poll once where Hillary Clinton won most liked woman as well as most hated.

And when it comes down to it, the things these celebrities are hated for are not serious crimes, they just offend some of our sensibilities. So, in the board’s infinite wisdom, we hate Kim Kardashian for being shallow more than Aileen Wuornos for being a serial killer.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/148 "2014-06-19T13:45:41Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> Nancy Grace - she’s truly my least favorite female -

Hands down winner here, but I have a hard time accepting that it is a human being.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/149 "2014-06-19T13:52:58Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Better known in song perhaps as “Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up…”

😃

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/150 "2014-06-19T14:11:38Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> … She and her husband are a matched set of assholes.

May I propose a spin-off thread that might expand on this concept. The imagery is terrific, like those figurine bookends you see in old parlors and such.

Who wants to start that thread? It would be a doozy, IMHO! 🙂

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**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 19, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/151 "2014-06-19T14:46:03Z")

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> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> Still, 10 years from now all these women will think that the entire board hates every single one of them, which is completely and totally untrue…

My suspicion is that ten years from now, these women will be totally unaware that this message board exists, just as they are now. You can’t hurt them when they can’t hear you. I realize this is a public message board, but how far into the results would you have to go to pull up this thread if you googled any of these women’s names? Quite a ways, I suspect.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/152 "2014-06-19T15:00:56Z")

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Which actually brings up a good reason not to nominate “my ex-girlfriend,” or “my step-MIL,” because we probably should stick to public figures.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/153 "2014-06-19T15:07:39Z")

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> [@Evil\_Captor](#):
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> My suspicion is that ten years from now, these women will be totally unaware that this message board exists, just as they are now. You can’t hurt them when they can’t hear you. I realize this is a public message board, but how far into the results would you have to go to pull up this thread if you googled any of these women’s names? Quite a ways, I suspect.

You are forgetting about a little unmentionable incident that happened a couple months ago. . . .

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**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/154 "2014-06-19T15:19:05Z")

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> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#):
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> What exactly is there to hate about Michelle Obama? Has she ever said or done anything even remotely controversial?

She’s black and married to a Democratic president. Anything shes says or does, regardless how innocuous, is going to be considered outrageous and inappropriate by conservatives. I suspect Michelle breathing the same air they do is a bit much for hard right Republicans.

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**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 19, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/155 "2014-06-19T15:36:42Z")

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> [@Mr.Nylock](#):
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> You are forgetting about a little unmentionable incident that happened a couple months ago. . . .

No, I’m not, I’m unaware of it. What happened? (IM if the Mods say it’s not for public comment.)

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/156 "2014-06-19T16:08:40Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> I currently have eighty-nine names on my master list. I’m going to keep accepting nominees until we hit 128 names. And then we’ll start the competition.

If you will, compare your list to this latest collection of 97 names which includes the Top Ten lists’ names marked with \<\<\<.

There are other names mentioned in passing here and there that I have not included. Perhaps the people who mentioned them will repeat them for keeps.

And by all means, Readers, add to the tally. We need 128 names for the March Madness Magic to work.

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Straight Dope Message Board \> Main \> In My Humble Opinion (IMHO)  
Candidates for Least Favorite Female Human Being

“\<\<\<” = mentioned in a Top Ten list

\*\*\* Politics / Political Commentary (26)

Madeline Albright  
Michelle Bachman – \<\<\<  
Jan Brewer  
Barbara Bush (the old woman, not her granddaughter)  
Hillary Clinton

Ann Coulter – \<\<\<  
Stephanie Cutter  
Isabel dos Santos – added 6/19/14  
Joycelyn Elders  
Jane Fonda

Nancy Grace  
Rachel Maddow  
Michelle Malkin  
Somaly Mam  
Winnie Mandela

Mary Matalin – added 6/19/14  
Michelle Obama  
Sarah Palin – \<\<\<  
Nancy Pelosi  
Nancy Reagan

Janet Reno  
Condoleezza Rice  
Phyllis Schlafly  
Lea Thompson (TV journalist) – \<\<\<  
Alex Wagner – added 6/19/14

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz – added 6/19/14

$$$ Entertainment (42)

Farrah Abraham  
Roseanne Barr  
Rhonda Byrne (author) – \<\<\<  
Miley Cyrus  
Jenelle Evans – added 6/19/14

Bethenny Frankel  
Lady Gaga  
Janeane Garofalo  
Kate Gosselin  
Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Anne Hathaway  
Katherine Heigl  
Paris Hilton  
“Honey BooBoo” – added 6/19/14  
“Honey BooBoo’s” mother (“Mama June”) – added 6/19/14

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” (16)

Beverly Allitt  
Casey Anthony  
Lorena Bobbitt  
Paula Deen – \<\<\< – added 6/19/14  
Allison Dubois – \<\<\< – added 6/19/14 (to replace Paula Deen) &&& Note: this is NOT Patricia Arquette &&&

Charlene Gallego  
Gina Hancock  
Karla Homolka – \<\<\<  
Katherine Knight  
Susan Smith

Lacey Spears – added 6/19/14  
Nadya (Octomom) Suleman – \<\<\<  
Marybeth Tinning  
Rosemary West  
Tracey Wigginton

Andrea Yates

+++ DEAD +++ (13)

Tammy Faye Baker – dead  
Elizabeth Bathory – dead  
Sylvia Browne – dead – added 6/19/14  
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

Mother Teresa – dead – added 6/19/14  
Margaret Thatcher – dead  
Aileen Wuornos – dead

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/157 "2014-06-19T16:22:05Z")

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To the parenthetical phrase after Lea Thompson “(TV journalist)” can you specify “NOT actress” so people are aware that yes, there are two people with the same name, and will maybe go Google the TV journalist-vaccine alarmist, if they have not heard of her.

Also, it never occurred to me that people might not realize Allison DuBois is a real person, and that I was nominating the fictional character portrayed by Patricia Arquette, or somehow, Arquette herself. Allison DuBois is only not as bad as Sylvia Browne by virtue of not having been around as long, but she’s pretty awful. Aside from being a fake psychic, she’s a right-wing nut, and advocate of the death penalty, who claims that she can talk to the dead, so she knows that there are no innocent people on death row.

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/158 "2014-06-19T16:25:26Z")

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> [@Onomatopoeia](#):
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> She’s black and married to a Democratic president. Anything shes says or does, regardless how innocuous, is going to be considered outrageous and inappropriate by conservatives. I suspect Michelle breathing the same air they do is a bit much for hard right Republicans.

Maybe you haven’t noticed, but “hard right” Republicans don’t seem to have any problem breathing the same air as Clarence Thomas, Alan West, Alan Keyes, Herman Cain, etc., etc., etc.

Perhaps the problem with the couple in the White House isn’t really the color of their skin but their politics? And in the case of the distaff half, it’s her proclivity to try to set government policy when she hasn’t been elected to do so…you know, just like another Democrat wife (who happens to be white) which many hate with greater fervor than they ever have Michelle Obama.

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**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/159 "2014-06-19T16:27:22Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> Maybe you haven’t noticed, but “hard right” Republicans don’t seem to have any problem breathing the same air as Clarence Thomas, Alan West, Alan Keyes, Herman Cain, etc., etc., etc.
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> Perhaps the problem with the couple in the White House isn’t really the color of their skin but their politics? And in the case of the distaff half, it’s her proclivity to try to set government policy when she hasn’t been elected to do so…you know, just like another Democrat wife (who happens to be white) which many hate with greater fervor than they ever have Michelle Obama.

Michelle Obama “tries to set government policy?” I must have missed that.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidates-for-least-favorite-female-human-being/690988/160 "2014-06-19T16:30:04Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> To the parenthetical phrase after Lea Thompson “(TV journalist)” can you specify “NOT actress” so people are aware that yes, there are two people with the same name, and will maybe go Google the TV journalist-vaccine alarmist, if they have not heard of her.
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> Also, it never occurred to me that people might not realize Allison DuBois is a real person, and that I was nominating the fictional character portrayed by Patricia Arquette, or somehow, Arquette herself. Allison DuBois is only not as bad as Sylvia Browne by virtue of not having been around as long, but she’s pretty awful. Aside from being a fake psychic, she’s a right-wing nut, and advocate of the death penalty, who claims that she can talk to the dead, so she knows that there are no innocent people on death row.

I’m fixing Lea’s entry right now (it may be a while showing up again here). Thanks for the clarification that Allison is not Patricia. Patricia is at the other extreme of the Likeability Scale for me, and has been since _True Romance_ and other fine films. I just love her laugh!

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