As for the actions of Rhode and her extreme antipathy toward me -- show me one example of a female, in history, who rose through the ranks to be a leader among her people, who's prejudice against a group was so murderous that she would turn upon a former pupil who was found to have 'tainted blood'.
I agree with all previous answers concerning the equality of the sexes, and their equal ability of being jerks.
That being said: Cleopatra VII of Egypt allegedly poisoned her younger brother, Ptolemy XIV, in order to secure the kingdom for her son with Julius Caesar, Ptolemy XIV Caesarion. Cleopatra was a leader among her people, her prejudice against her own family were murderous (quite rationally so, since they had an established historical tradition of sibling assassination), and it could be said that it was precisely Ptolemy's blood - i.e. him being a blood relative - that made it necessary to kill him.
I am sure that more examples could be found. But the post asked for
one example.
