I was never a regular visitor to Michelle Malkin’s site, but the last few times I have gone there I have not been disappointed.  Today there was another example when she posted her column of the week for TownHall.com.  Her column is a response to the embarrassment that is Sally Field.

[Emphasis mine.]

Contrary to tongue-tied Sally’s incoherent Primetime Emmy Awards diatribe, childbearing and childrearing experiences do not bond all women in a universal sorority of non-confrontation. There are sheep moms. There are lion moms. We know which kind Sally Field is.

“If mothers ruled the, ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place,” Field bleated. In the Gidget Guide to Parenting, mothers are appeasers and hand-holders. Our maternal instincts supposedly lead us to shun fights and coddle bullies instead of disciplining them.

There would be “no god-damned wars,” Silly Sally, because we’d all be conquered chattel if Field Diplomacy “ruled the world.”

Motherhood and peace-making are not synonymous. Motherhood requires ferocity, the will and resolve to protect one’s own children at all costs, and a life-long commitment to sacrifice for a family’s betterment and survival. Conflict avoidance is incompatible with good mothering.

On the playground of life, Sally Field is the mom who looks the other way when the brat on the elementary school slide pushes your son to the ground or throws dirt in your daughter’s face.

She’s the mom who holds her tongue at the mall when thugs spew profanities and make crude gestures in front of her brood. She’s the mom who tells her child never to point out when a teacher gets her facts wrong.

She’s the mom who buys her teenager beer, condoms and a hotel room on prom night, because she’d rather give in than assert her parental authority and do battle.

When I read this a smile came to my face and peace to my heart because I know that I married a women who is a “LION”, not a “SHEEP”.  I know that she is ferocious and will guide and protect our “brood” to the death, while at the same time being one of the most loving and tender mom you have ever meet.

As I think about it, I realized that her two best friends, including Gary’s better half (sorry GeeEmInEm, but she is the better half), fit into the same category.