Well, to all appearances the bar is set pretty low. Over the past few days erudite readers of my hometown paper have fallen all over themselves protesting the fact that Charlotte Allen was “allowed” to insult their intelligence with this……

I was frankly a little surprised to see that Jay Rosen, a big proponent of more open journalism, has his panties all in a bunch over the recent Charlotte Allen column in the WaPo.
You’d think he’d be the first to applaud the appearance of a…

We are all different, what’s the problem?

flytier on March 2, 2008 at 9:27 PM

For feminists, that is the problem.

Grayson on March 2, 2008 at 11:59 PM

Grayson on March 2, 2008 at 11:59 PM

There is a downside to being either a woman or a man. Women can be vain and manipulative in a way that men never can be, while men can be… well, pigs, in ways that women would never imagine.

I don’t think Ms Allen is proud of some of her “sisters” for behaving as some of them do. I think she is appalled by those who give into their lesser traits rather than their higher ones, in being so mesmerized by appearances, in matters where appearances can be deceiving. Real women, women who are proud of their special gifts and who don’t judge themselves in terms of doing thing that men can do, would be aghast at other women who would let themselves be taken in so easily by such fleeting charm. I think that’s the point Ms Allen is trying to make.

Her success in so doing notwithstanding.

At work, one can’t help but notice that when women gain control, they organize themselves into a bitchy little sorority.

Tantor on March 3, 2008 at 1:23 AM

Which is why I’d rather be a street-walker than work in another office.

Oh and what Jaynie59 said.

Ed, you’ve been hood-winked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok.

Lighten up.

Here I was thinking he was a staunch anti-communist…
Geministorm on March 2, 2008 at 8:09 PM

Oh good. I mean, you said he as a college prof and all so..

Riehl World View

Actually, this Washington Post item has already left quite a mark. And I wouldn’t look for it to disappear anytime soon. Wow! This Charlotte Allen babe better hire a body guard – a male one, I think. LOL Ed at Hot Air offers an attac…

Why did Holly recreate Rimmer to be Lister’s companion on the Red Dwarf?

That said, I for one welcome our leather-thonged buxom overlords.

Actually ,the best boss I ever had was a woman. If she were running for president, I would campaign and vote for her. Hillary …. no

gstrickler on March 2, 2008 at 10:24 PM

Same here, or at least among the best bosses. (Sun Chi by name.)

And my fiancée for one is much smarter than I am. Case in point: we just applied to Harvard for the same program, for which they received (they let us know) 106 applications. She was one of the seven they chose, while I was one of the ninety-nine left out in the wilderness.

Is it intimidating having such a brainy soon-to-be-wife? Perhaps occasionally. But mostly it’s exhilarating.

Actually, this Washington Post item has already left quite a mark. And I wouldn’t look for it to disappear anytime soon. Wow! This Charlotte Allen babe better hire a body guard – a male one, I think. LOL Ed at…

I’m a female who has worked for 20 years in a technical field and I can say this with no hesitation:

1) Most women are dumber than most men, and those of average intelligence make no effort to compensate for their lack of smarts because they don’t have to. A woman who cannot do what a man makes an effort to do is not expected to. They are compensated for.

2)Smart women have to be twice as smart, and work twice as hard, as the average man to be perceived to be as good as he is. She can never be wrong, have no personal opinions, and NEVER say she doesn’t know something because not knowing one thing means, to most people, that she doesn’t know anything. Most men, on the other had, have a problem saying the words “I don’t know” and even when they do say them, they are considered smart and talented anyway. And humble.

3) Most women are their own worst enemies and they make it tough for the smart and talented women to get respect because they are such poor roll models.

4) I would rather work for, and with, men any day. In my 20 years in a technical field, I can count the number of men who have disrespected me on the fingers of one hand. But the women? Women are petty. Women are mean. Women are just horrible to each other. The smarter and prettier a woman is, the worse treatment she gets from other women.

5) Women suck, actually.

Short (funny) video: Women, Know Your Limits

Tzetzes on March 2, 2008 at 8:52 PM

Bwwwaaahahahahahahahah!!!

Meh………

“…and grow beards.”

BWWWWWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Tzetzes: Thanks for that,good laugh,Now
I know what happen to Women who
are Liberal!Haha

Ms. P. made these same points far better and with superior intellectual brilliance in her engrossing book “Sexual Personae” well over a decade ago.

Shame on this shallow twit.

Or maybe I should just get back to the kitchen and finish birthing dem babies.