Surely We Have Women Who Are Idiots Did you see this line blaring out from the cover of yesterday's New York Times Book Review?

"Surely we women have a gene—in addition to those saucy, but ill-mannered, hormones—for theatrics, so frequently do they puncture our inner lives and decorate our outer ones in operatic robes."

It's from a review by someone named Toni Bentley of a Mary Wollstonecraft biography.

Now, I know that Bentley is trying to write as pretentiously as she can—those saucy, but ill-mannered, hormones!—but still.....

Do women really need another woman saying that they have a gene for theatrics?

There are moments when I feel sorry for Larry Summers. Imagine if he—or any other man in a public position—had made such a remark?  ¶ 7:45 AM