How Do Women Rule? …Just Like Men: “Christine Stolba says folks who believe women rulers are nicer don’t know
their herstory.”

Want to raze a village? Boadicea, England’s warrior queen, was just the gal to
get the job done. A revered figure and a sentimental favorite of Victorian
painters, Boadicea is commemorated by a statue that stands on Westminster
Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament. She is remembered for her bravery in
leading a revolt against her country’s occupiers, the Romans, in 60 A.D. Alas,
recent discoveries at an archeological dig near Colchester—a town seized and
destroyed by Boadicea—led dig director Philip Crummy to compare Boadicea’s
program and tactics to “ethnic cleansing” in the Balkans.

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