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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Quote of the day

Katha Pollitt reminds the Washington Post why it doesn't have more female readers.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 01:35 PM

I don't have a crush on Obama,

but I am considering one on Katha Pollitt....

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 02:04 PM

ANTI=WOMEN?

LOOK, WOMEN AREN'T VERY BRIGHT. NEITHER ARE MEN. THE INTELLECTUAL LEVEL OF AMERICANS IS DEPLORABLE. WE DESERVED BUSH.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 02:08 PM

Why Education is Wasted on Women

This article has already appeared in several venues, including the NYT. The reason is because women use their fancy degrees from the Ivy League to snag rich husbands and then they leave the workforce to have kids. Thus their educations serve neither society nor feminism.

Broadsheet has covered this story several times.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 02:20 PM

Sometimes you just have to vote in favor of your own interests even if you think it's stupid

Hey there's lots about the Dems I think is inane and yet I will in fact vote for a dead horseshoe crab before I vote Republican. Sometimes you just have to do that. This is what I don't understand about the issues swirling about Hillary. Why WOULDN'T you (women) vote for her? Long run there's got to be more upside to you if you do and voting against your OWN interests now isn't going to buy you any brownie points in Liberal Heaven either.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 02:58 PM

ugh.

I'm just flabbergasted such 'articles' are still written. Men are more cartesian because they had to calculate the trajectories of spears? women have better memories because they needed to remember where the berries were?? That sort of bubble-gum anthropology is largely debunked by modern research.

Some of the commentators insist Charlotte Allen is none other than Kathryn Jean Lopez, which begs the question, why hide behind a pseudonym? Should that be even allowed on a major newspaper? Why use an aol account? Baah.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 11:27 AM

I can feel where she's coming from

If you hang around with mostly women (as most women do) it's easy to come to the conclusion that women are dangerously dumb.

If you hang around with mostly men you may notice that men are also dangerously dumb.

It's a miracle most people manage to stand upright and point themselves in more or less the right direction each morning. Many people don't; they bounce off each other on the way to work and end up calling their insurance companies.

The original article had a couple of good points to make. Who are these fainting women? Can I see one? Can I meet her? Am I allowed to slap her for setting the cause of womanhood back 100 years or would that be tacky? Can I slap her repeatedly while saying, "BREATHE, dumbass! It's an autonomic function, how hard can it be? No, no, don't fall over... you're doing it all wrong... damn it..."

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