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"HELL — Feminist icon Gloria Steinem refused to allow Satan to hold the door open for her on the way into hell, in what many are calling her final act against the Patriarchy.
"No way," Steinem said as the Devil attempted to hold the door open for her. "I don't do that. I don't submit to your male chauvinism. I won't give you that power over me. Now step aside."
Satan told friends he was a little taken aback by Steinem's behavior.
"I typically hold the door for all our new female residents," he said. "It's just the way I am. It's the way I was raised. I don't know why she took offense. I didn't mean anything by it."
"Steinem was later seen chastising the Prince of Darkness for his perceived sexism and told him that she's a "powerful, independent woman who's perfectly capable of opening the door" for herself.
"'Get out of my way, pig," she said. "Don't you try to pull that old-fashioned garbage with me. I'm talking… are you listening?"
"At publishing time, Steinem had been seen trying to reprimand male residents of Hell for their attempts to show her around the place."
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. . . "Between Dolly and Gloria, I do have my personal favorite. I really want to say that it’s Dolly. I suspect that she shares my conservative leanings; I like women who are not vertically taller than I am; she was famously generous; and it’s good that she will allllllllwaaays love me since I’m not always very lovable.
"But, no, my favorite is Gloria. I know, we will argue politics a lot. She’s threateningly tall at 5’9” in case I were the type of man who feels threatened by that. She said she had an abortion. She helped women for a while but her dogmatism ultimately hurt them. Her hair was always parted down the middle, which was okay for a 34-year-old looker but a little stale for a 90-year-old.
"But she had a certain moxie that said, “I live by my own rules, not yours. No gimmicks, no artifice.”. . .