@msolga,
It is very well known in those circles where familiarity with expert writing is taken for granted that one might enhance one's status in the eyes of one's fellows by bestowing upon some lowly female an elaborate and patronising display of politeness and consideration which is actually nothing but contempt in an elegant disguise.
I think of this cleaning woman as another intelligence in the world, equal at least to my own, albeit in a different way, and I thus treat her as such. The real misogynists are those who are treating her as if she is some delicate endangered species they have captured and incarcerated in a gilded cage of their own design and to fulfill their own needs. Any female approvingly identifying themselves with such base and devious tricks is implicitly accepting their own status as an inferior being.
It is not unlike our Queen handing out the Maundy Money when the cost of the ceremonial if divided among the recipients would easily give them at least a thousand times the amount they receive in the ritual. Maybe fifty thousand times the amount. Maybe even more than that.
As an Aussie Olga you will no doubt remember the famous occasion when your Prime Minister assaulted The Queen by laying his wanking hand upon her sacred back ostensibly to assist her to walk in the correct direction but actually to make the point that he was an ignorant republican rascal. She had never previously been known to need such guidance.
Should he have been arrested because there were many here who thought so as he did the dirty deed with malice aforethought and it was entirely premeditated? That She brushed the affront to Her Regal Dignity off without a glimmer of recognition is a compliment to Her sophistication and superiority. But he did lay hands on The Queen and he knew that he should not have been doing. It was a gratuitous act of an Aussie male supremicist. I assume she had the coat incinerated privately.
The very worst that can be said about DSK was that the maid cast an enchanting spell on him of such power that his wits were temporarily destabilised and it is beyond her vanity's power to not want all the world to know that she is capable of rendering momentarily insane a man of such stature as he had.
The blithe assumption that she was not capable of such a feat is a profound expression of contempt for her, and for women in general, considering that such a power has been demonstrated by many women in the past and to such an extent that long wars have been fought over it, civilisations brought to their knees for it and shoes and frocks and diamonds have been piled high on behalf of it.
One can only assume that her female supporters have never been able to exercise this natural gift that some women possess and, indeed many women, and are thus likely to assume it does not exist.
