1. She expresses her opinion in a calm, respectful manner. No matter what the outcome is, she DOES NOT scream, swear, throw things, stomp her feet, make ridiculous and baseless accusations, and succeed in embarrassing herself and other women.

2. She puts the needs of her family, including her husband, ahead of her own needs and desires. This takes a great deal of strength and courage, because it involves self-sacrifice. She realizes that family comes first. Not only that, but she SUPPORTS other women who have made the same choice.

3. She takes responsibility for her actions, whatever those actions may be. She DOES NOT play the blame game, she DOES NOT play the martyr, and she certainly DOES NOT repeat the mistakes that got her into trouble in the first place.

4. She does not attack other women for being polite when responding to the questions and comments of members of the male gender. (For example: Marcotte’s references to Michelle Malkin)

5. She DOES NOT hate men and insist that all men are sexist pigs, who seek to objectify women and oppress them. In fact, she realizes that her sexist comments about men are outright hypocritical, seeing as she is known for complaining about how “all men” are sexist against women.

6. She DOES NOT accuse other people of bigotry, and then expose herself as a bigot by insulting people of faith. Rather, she states her case against other people’s faiths, WITHOUT turning to petty, foul-mouthed, bigoted insults to make her point. She knows the difference between disagreeing with and even hating a person’s beliefs, and hating the person.

In other words, Amanda Marcotte IS NOT a strong woman. A strong woman, to me, is a woman of character and respectability. Marcotte is neither of those things. Not only that, but she certainly DOES NOT speak for all of womankind. She speaks only for herself.

So thank you very much, Miss Marcotte! But I would prefer it if a strong, respectable, intelligent, well-mannered, non-hypocritical, non-bigoted, non-sexist woman would represent me.