Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Women Write Back
That Washington Post piece by Charlotte Allen about why women are "dumb" is kicking up a fuss, as it should.
The piece was so weird that even a neo-fem (if that's not a phrase, consider it coined) like Lisa Schiffren takes aim at it.
Writing in the National Review Online, Schiffren says,
As far as I can tell, there is more than enough stupidity out there to go round. When it's a writer with a dumb idea for a column, the idea is that an editor will exercise better judgement. I'm not an oversensitive feminist. But as a rule, "women are really stupid" columns aren't funny even when written by women.
Of course, Christopher Hitchens would say that that's because women aren't funny.... ¶ 12:47 PM
The piece was so weird that even a neo-fem (if that's not a phrase, consider it coined) like Lisa Schiffren takes aim at it.
Writing in the National Review Online, Schiffren says,
As far as I can tell, there is more than enough stupidity out there to go round. When it's a writer with a dumb idea for a column, the idea is that an editor will exercise better judgement. I'm not an oversensitive feminist. But as a rule, "women are really stupid" columns aren't funny even when written by women.
Of course, Christopher Hitchens would say that that's because women aren't funny.... ¶ 12:47 PM
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This hasn't been a good week for newspapers and columns for women. Perhaps less shocking on the surface, the Globe's column (also from March 2--bad planetary alignment that day?) is quite a piece of work. http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/
articles/2008/03/02/
want_to_have_a_baby_nows_the_time/
Yes, let's all pull ourselves out of the workforce to have babies!
Sheesh.
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articles/2008/03/02/
want_to_have_a_baby_nows_the_time/
Yes, let's all pull ourselves out of the workforce to have babies!
Sheesh.
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