# What woman in history do you dislike the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 7, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379 "2021-03-07T06:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/1 "2021-03-07T06:13:24Z")
Pretty simple, pick one woman from history that you dislike the most. If at all possible, pick someone who’s deceased. I’ll go with Queen Boudicca, probably because I’ve been reading about Londonium lately. > **[Boudicca | History, Meaning, Statue, Facts, & Death](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Boudicca)** > > Boudicca, also spelled Boadicea or Boudica, (died 60 or 61 ce), ancient British queen who in 60 ce led a revolt against Roman rule. Boudicca’s husband, Prasutagus, was king of the Iceni (in what is now Norfolk) as a client under Roman suzerainty.... ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/2 "2021-03-07T06:21:22Z")
It seems an unusual request, but the best I can do is to select almost any one of the female Christian martyrs. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/3 "2021-03-07T06:41:42Z")
Ayn Rand. There are women in History like Catherine de Medici and Jiang Qing who caused more suffering, but Rand’s stench still lingers in our current political landscape. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/4 "2021-03-07T08:41:53Z")
Hard to top Jezebel of the Bible, with the Empress Dowager Cixi of China and Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing trailing close behind at 2nd place. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/5 "2021-03-07T08:50:24Z")
Phyllis Schlafly ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/6 "2021-03-07T08:53:07Z")
My first wife comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/7 "2021-03-07T09:16:14Z")
Mother Theresa See Christopher Hitchens’ exposé of what a nasty woman she really was. > **[The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position:_Mother_Teresa_in_Theory_and_Practice)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by the British-American journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens published in 1995. It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholic religious congregation, and it challenges the mainstream media's assessment of her charitable efforts. The book's thesis, as summarized by one critic, was that "Mother Teresa is ... ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/8 "2021-03-07T10:38:44Z")
Margaret Thatcher. I had to spend exactly 0.01 seconds thinking about that one. My real question, though, is - Why _Boudica_? It’s not like she didn’t have pretty legitimate gripe with the Romans. When it comes to history, one of my rules of thumb is “The Romans _always_ had it coming to them”. They were history’s biggest assholes. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/9 "2021-03-07T12:32:40Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Mother Theresa > > See Christopher Hitchens’ exposé of what a nasty woman she really was. Great book. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/10 "2021-03-07T12:57:43Z")
[Carrie Nation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation). Alcohol is not the root of all evil. And people who abuse alcohol don’t need to be put in jail. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/11 "2021-03-07T13:27:39Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Margaret Thatcher. I had to spend exactly 0.01 seconds thinking about that one. Seconded. She came immediately to mind. “The bottle snatcher.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/12 "2021-03-07T13:30:01Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > [Carrie Nation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation). Alcohol is not the root of all evil. And people who abuse alcohol don’t need to be put in jail. This is who I came in to say. She was a real buzz-killer. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/13 "2021-03-07T13:36:18Z")
As a British working-class child of the 80s, I believe I’m contractually obliged to say Margaret Thatcher. I’d like to throw in a dishonourable mention to [Pauline Hanson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson) as well- I’m not Australian, but I have some charmingly bigoted Aussie relatives who are supporters, leading to a lot of gritted teeth moments when I was staying with them. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/14 "2021-03-07T13:45:31Z")
Margaret Thatcher. Four out of 14, not bad. Thinking of some of the first wifes I have met and heard of (including my own) we could try to make **Dereknocue67** ’s first wife (#5 in this thread) into a generic description, then she would win, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/15 "2021-03-07T14:54:12Z")
Nellie Wilson Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/16 "2021-03-07T15:44:12Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > When it comes to history, one of my rules of thumb is “The Romans _always_ had it coming to them”. They were history’s biggest assholes. Spend about 10 seconds reading about the Assyrian Empire, and you’ll change your mind. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/17 "2021-03-07T15:47:06Z")
I agree with Mother Theresa, but for some variation I’ll throw in Imelda Marcos. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/18 "2021-03-07T15:48:40Z")
Yep. Ninja’d me, too. > **[Carry Nation | Biography, Hatchet, & Facts](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carry-Nation)** > > Carry Nation, in full Carry A. Nation, née Carrie Amelia Moore, (born November 25, 1846, Garrard county, Kentucky, U.S.—died June 9, 1911, Leavenworth, Kansas), American temperance advocate famous for using a hatchet to demolish barrooms. Carry... ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/19 "2021-03-07T15:52:01Z")
I’m totally aware of the Assyrians. I stand by my statement. This is a little hijack-ish, but is there something in particular that you think makes them worse than the Romans? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379/20 "2021-03-07T15:57:39Z")
That seems like a good analysis. (Add Mary I to those that caused a lot of suffering). I DISLIKE Mary, Queen of Scots. Because she seems to have been an idiot in over her head. I don’t think she did anything particularly terrible for her time - but she was dumb about almost everything she did and had horrific taste in men. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-woman-in-history-do-you-dislike-the-most/937379.md?page=2)