Letters to the Editor
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This is news?
Seriously, though. Prove her wrong.
Urge your girls to study comp sci in college. Fund young women's moviemaking ventures. Tell them to respect their bodies.
Dave Barry used to have regular humor pieces about how stupid guys supposedly are. IT would certainly bring women down to Earth and make them more approachable and likeable if women could laugh at their foibles too.
But to carry on as if there is supposed to be a media blackout about criticising women is a losing cause. It will convince noone. Those who already think women are stupid will continue to think this, and those who know women are better than that will not be fooled by such articles.
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Heh
We males are used to self-deprecation in the media. The trick is to not take it that seriously.
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I dunno
I work in a virtually all female office and the sorority atmosphere is something to behold--and I don't mean that in a good way.
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Poorly Written Piece
The "dumb women" op-ed wasn't written well enough to merit even a chuckle. Usually, a brilliant piece of satire really pushes for humor through extreme absurdity or exaggeration, but the author didn't go for either. She was for real, but now she's claiming "satire" to save herself. Oh, please.
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So, IT is the answer?
That will bring women "down to earth"?
I don't watch Gray's Anatomy or Oprah and have never listened to a Celine Dion song all the way through, much less purchased a CD. And, I'm not stupid.
I don't have too much trouble with technology, even though I've never studied IT, so I'm not sure what "brought me down to earth," although I'm pretty sure I've been this way most of my life.
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Mars and Venus both have their guilty pleasures
Venus has Grey's Anatomy, The Gilmore Girls & chick lit...
Mars has the Red Green Show, South Park and Chuck Palahniuk...
Raving idiots and ravishing geniuses are sprinkled quite liberally among both genders. To suggest anything differently is to be delusional.
I could say more - but I'm gonna go read The Onion now.
{Why, yes - I am male. How did you guess? =}
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Consider who the author is . . .
Charlotte Allen is a leader in the anti-feminist Independent Women's Forum. Satirizing anti-female attitudes would be completely inconsistent with her past writings.
Nope, this was not intended in jest. Nice try, WaPo, women are quite that stupid.
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oops . . . duh
I meant, "Women are NOT quite that stupid."
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And it was badly written too.
And this is the same idiot writer who did a piece in the Post a while back on the stupidity of living wills, because (hee hee giggle giggle) who wants to think about dying and stuff? And you can trust the people who love you to know what you want.
I suspect she's somebody's girlfriend or daughter ...
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Smart
Merely a thinly-veiled, though clever and Machiavellian attempt by a Hillary supporter to rile up female voters the day before the Ohio & Texas primaries. Anything that anyone says about women helps Clinton tremendously in the polls.
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Hee--and _this_ is how the POST is going to attract much-needed female readers?
Yeah, guys--you just keep on keepin' on like that. :)
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Why would anyone argue women are stupider?!?
If anything, they are smarter than men.
Women get to avoid all the dirty difficult jobs, sloughing them off onto men, while they get to enjoy all the goodies society has to offer. Women get to control the tenor and dialog of their marriage and home life and have the option to declare a marriage void, gleefully taking the spoils from the man.
To rub it in, women place onto themselves the mantle of 'victim', as if they should be immune from the world's troubles.
Meanwhile, men work harder, die younger, suffer in mindless wars, anesthesize themselves with drink and drugs, and struggle and sacrifice to gain the attentions of women.
Women get to call men stupid and get away with it.
Sounds like the women are the smarter ones.
I could go on, but it is beginning to depress me.
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For once I agree
Anyone of either sex would have to be very stupid not to recognize that the article is satirical in intent, because if the author was truly stupid, she would not write so well.
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Another thing women do that's stupid...
They write lame, crappy op-eds about how women are stupid.
I'd love to really go into the list of things that are so wrong with this piece, but I have a very busy afternoon of talking to my female co-workers about Botox to get to.
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Dumb like a fox
It got her published in a prestigious venue.
If she's that stupid, what's she doing inflicting her drivel on the rest of the world?
What's stupider: The IWF shill or the guys who believe every word she wrote?
Probably, the guy who said that if it weren't for the sex, women would be hunted for sport. I hope he's as inept with a rifle or bow as he is indiscreet.
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Women
Women have many thousands of years of history showing that they defer to males. Intelligence has nothing to do with the present state of affairs. A smart female can get just about anything she wants from most males. All she has to do is follow her instincts that has been built into her for all those thousands of years.
If she wants to run for president or anything like that, it will take a long time. Voice timbre and things like that are against her. In the present campaign women have a poor representative. Try again later, perhaps with Michelle Obama.
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I wasn't impressed but....
I thought the screaming it evoked in response (and the 'how could you', or better yet, 'how could you print it') was also a bit much.
I mean, she has a right to think it and write it and the Washington Post has a right to print it. What people have a right to do is, well, decide that it was too bad to even be a piece of satire (and, I have news for Charlotte Allen, it doesn't work as a piece of satire, she would have been better off sticking to her guns) and decide not to read the Post again. That is really your weapon, if you want one.
In my opinion, based on the stuff that gets printed in the Post these days, her mistake was in going further than calling out Clinton. If she'd stuck to calling Clinton and her campaign a disgrace to women, most feminists would have wanted to give her a parade (despite the fact that Allen is a Republican who wouldn't want to be caught dead with them). She made the fatal mistake of saying other nasty things about women in general, and saying women who swoon at Obama rallies remind her of teenyboppers at concerts. That's when she alienated the 'audience'.
I'm not saying I agree with anything she said. I'm just giving her advice, so she can avoid these types of dust-ups in the future. She can take it or leave it.