Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Woman
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What if Martha were "Mark" Stewart?
Would people be paying as much attention? I doubt it.
And I'm not here to be an apologist for the decorating diva. Just someone who wants to put some of this in perspective.
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Ms. Stewart, as you know, is being scrutinized for the sale of close to 4,000 shares of ImClone stock back in December — a day before a damning decision by the Food and Drug Administration, tanked the stock.
Some find the timing curious. So do I. But then again, I do know that Martha had tried to sell all her ImClone shares months earlier, and couldn't because there was a limit on how much of it she could unload.
That doesn't matter. Here's what does: Some people love to hate Martha. Why? I think because she's an easy target: rich, bitchy, hard-driving and a woman.
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It's funny, we can tolerate those tenacious qualities in a male, but apparently not when it's a female. Why?
Clearly, Martha has her enemies: People who used to work with her, people who used to work for her, even neighbors who live near her — a lot of them hate her.
Martha can be a pistol. Some say she can even make you reach for a pistol. But would she generate near the headlines she does if her home fashions empire were run by a man? I don't know.
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But giants like Bed, Bath and Beyond, or Linens and Things don't generate half the buzz or get a tenth the grief.
And they kind of do what Martha does. Good men running them both and pretty tenacious chaps themselves.
Maybe Martha does bring a lot of this on herself. She's ruthless, aggressive and takes no prisoners. These are qualities we admire in big muckety-mucks.
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Unless, of course, those big muckety-mucks aren't wearing a tie.
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