MADONNA VS. MARTHA STEWART.

they are frighteningly similar in their drive, success, and stronghold on American culture, no? but what's really scary is the way they have embraced, reclaimed, and repackaged the Female Ideal. the Alpha Bitch. the Mother. between Martha's iron empire of domesticity and Madge's recent motherhood (complete with sparkly "MOTHER--FUCKER" Bedazzler t-shirt), i sense a great Women's Studies thesis. or at least a Celebrity Deathmatch.