Subject: Re: Nancy Maces's Scarlet Letter
Mace: "I'm wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had, last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote and for my voice."

Commonone: Perhaps The Scarlet Letter, the 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which the protagonist, Hester Prynne, has to wear a scarlet letter A -- for "adultery" -- for having a child out of wedlock was banned in her schools when she was a student.

I don't know, isn't she just trying to say that women are treated differently than men, just like they were in 1850? After all, the man she committed adultery with didn't also have to wear a scarlet letter, did he?

But perhaps I need to reread that novel myself...