# Has there ever been a dictatrix?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-dictatrix/346148 "2006-02-26T04:44:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-dictatrix/346148/21 "2006-02-26T19:08:39Z")

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She did invoke a constitutional article, so I guess it was constitutional - whether she was right to invoke it, though, is debatable. It was an absolute disaster in so many ways.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-dictatrix/346148/22 "2006-02-26T19:21:02Z")

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> [@Northern Piper](#):
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> She might be a candidate - I’m trying to remember - did she suspend the Congress? I seem to recall drastic infringements on individual rights, but can’t remember if she did them through Congress.

I was suggesting her in response to **Rigamarole’s** apparent wish to have a dictatrix of his very own. ( **YBeayf** had already mentioned Gandhi as an example of a dictarix.)

Seems a bit kinky to me, but I suppose a dictatrix might be persuaded to wear her jackboots around the house if that’s what you’re into.

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-dictatrix/346148/23 "2006-02-26T21:23:38Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> I was suggesting her in response to **Rigamarole’s** apparent wish to have a dictatrix of his very own. ( **YBeayf** had already mentioned Gandhi as an example of a dictarix.)
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> Seems a bit kinky to me, but I suppose a dictatrix might be persuaded to wear her jackboots around the house if that’s what you’re into.

She just might do. I wonder what she’d look like in leather?

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