Sally Field, committed chauvenist

Apparently, Sally Field has never heard of Margaret Thatcher or Indira Gandhi. I am so sick of these bigoted, sexist, chauvinists who live in this make-believe world that if women ruled there would be peace. Of course, history proves otherwise. The one step that Sally Field made in her speech at the Emmy is that it is "mothers" and not just women who would be these benevolent dictators able to mystically work out all the world's problems without war. That eliminates individuals like Elizabeth I, but seems to say very little about the largely needless war Margaret Thatcher ordered in the Falklands Islands.

However, when prejudices like the ones which Sally Field espouses are as entrenched in our society as they appear to be, one can't help but be surprised when they boil to the surface like this. What kind of mother does she know who wouldn't be willing to fight to the death to protect her children? Just the idea that women are somehow incapable of feeling the need to defend their children, defend their country, or defend themselves is such a demeaning, offensive slight against women that it shocks me that anyone would take her seriously, even for a moment.

Sally Field Speaks Out at the Emmys

Sally Field gave a heartfelt affirmation of motherhood on the Emmy stage when accepting her ward for ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" that segued into a criticism of the Iraq War.

"At the heart of [her character] Nora Walker, she is a mother," Field said. "May they be seen, may their work be valued and raised, and to especially the mothers who stand with an open heart and wait - wait for their children to come home for from danger, from harm's way and from war. I'm not finished. I have to finish talking...if the mothers ruled the world their would be no goddamn wars in the first place."

When she said "goddamn" onstage, however, Fox censors apparently took the opportunity to bleep the rest of her comments.

I wanted to say something about the mothers who wait for their military children to come home from harm's way," she said backstage. "I said at the end that if mothers ruled the world, there would be no wars."