What Women Apparently Don't Want ...is to be patronized by the New York Times. That column by John Tierney is getting blasted all over the Internet. It's not just the content of Tierney's column (see below). It's that there's something particularly irritating about having men draw conclusions about the nature of women on the New York Times op-ed page...when there are no women writing on that page.

For the same reason, Matt Miller's column all about his wife's theories on corporate America is annoying. If Miller's wife is so smart, how come she's not writing for the Times op-ed page?

How could the Times not have realized what a huge mistake it was making in hiring Miller as the replacement for Maureen Dowd, the sole female columnist at the Times op-ed page, while she's on book leave?

How, in this day and age, can you not have one—we're not talking a lot here, folks, just one—female columnist at the Times?

And this at the same time that the Times is asking its readers—male and female—to pony up $50 to read its columnists online....  ¶ 8:37 AM