Women Are No Better Than Men

Mary Malone writes:
There is a sort of reverse racism where the Irish or the Scots can say rude things about the English, but the English, however poor and battered they may be, are expected to bear upon themselves the sins, alleged or real of their race. I know Revolting Peasant has told me countless times how he is fed up with being blamed for the Potato Famine, the Highland Clearances and the Slavery of the Peoples of the Africa, despite the fact that this is historical garbage, and anyway, he and Dick were ploughing their fields and scattering (and drinking loco mead) at the time.
Likewise, women can use a sort of pseudo history to give themselves victim status, and in reverse sexist fashion, claim that women are better than men.
You only have to look at some of the dreadful modern women who have had power to realise that women are no better. In America, we see Hilary 'kill Gaddafi' Clinton or Madeleine 'a price worth paying' Albright, and in England facilitators of kiddie fiddlers such as Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt and Margaret Hodge, all of whom put their careers before the welfare of innocents, or Cherie Blair, wife of a war criminal who thinks we should put our careers before our children, not to mention the blessed Margaret, who for all her good intentions, screwed up big style.
 No, in this season of Lent, let us remember our own sins, and not those of others. Let us cut out the blame game. Some cultures may be better than others, sometimes men or women may appear to behave better than the complimentary gender, but deep down we  are  as bad as each other.