handmaiden

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These debates, especially if witnessed by younger women who haven't fully made up their minds about their political identities, help to instill a sense that being a handmaiden of patriarchy is cringeworthy.

From Salon

The deeper truth is this: education is not the handmaiden of politics — it is its lifeblood.

From Salon

Above all else, Trump is here to be the handmaiden for a whole new era of scamminess.

From Salon

Across the room, facing Helen, her handmaiden and Paris — and a despondent-looking dog — is Cassandra, who could see the future, along with Apollo, who had cursed her so her prophecies would not be believed.

From New York Times

So many of the Republicans who have played handmaiden to Trump's fascist designs have yet to pay a price for it, so it was a delight watching McCarthy take a year-long pie in the face.

From Salon