Charing Ball, in a blog entry at Madame Noire, takes a close look at Gloria Cain, saying that she either does not know that her husband, Herman, is a cad or has willfully turned a blind eye to the sexual harassment allegations. From her demeanor, it is hard to tell what Mrs. Cain actually knows, Ball writes.

... At any rate, poor old-fashioned Gloria Cain. I mean, poor, poor docile yet likable -- but certainly fragile -- and definitely earnest, Gloria. Either she doesn’t know how much of a cad her husband allegedly is or has willfully turned a blind eye to some of the antisocial behaviors we have heard about Mr. Cain exhibiting thus far.

While watching the interview, I started thinking about this film I watched recently called "The Woman," a radical feminist revenge horror flick, which tells the tale of a smiling chauvinist and psychopathic father and the women he keeps under his thumb. In the film the father captures and abducts a wild, Amazonian-type woman, who just happened to be bathing in a creek. The psycho dad then chains the feral woman up in the family storm cellar under the guise of "civilizing" her. But the reality is that he was subjecting this imprisoned woman to all sorts of torture, abuse and just flat out sexual assault. As horrible a monster as he was, nothing he did could have been achieved without the assistance of his suburban wife, who despite disapproving of keeping a woman prisoner in the basement, would still make meals and sew clothing for the feral woman so that her husbands could sexual abuse her more comfortably. Basically, the wife didn’t do anything to help the woman escape, even though she knew it was wrong. In short, she was complacent and by default was just as guilty as her psychopathic husband.

Now I'm not suggesting that Mrs. Cain is an enabler to her husband's alleged deviant behavior. Hell, I'm not even going to say that he is guilty -- mainly because that might get me sued. However, when you are married to a man, who is both disrespectful and condescending towards women including the House Democratic leader, who he called "Princess Nancy" Pelosi; who referred to presidential rival Michele Bachmann as "tutti-frutti" ice cream; or who suggested that a pizza with vegetable toppings is not manly and should be considered a sissy pizza -- then you don't get to play the St. Herman card with people.

Read Charing Ball's entire column at Madame Noire.

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