"How Mitt's old-fashioned values lost all the single ladies."

Excerpts from a Gene Weintgarten column in the Washington Post where he talks to author, Gina Barreca

"Some months before the presidential election, my funny feminist friend Gina Barreca wanted to discuss how and why Mitt Romney was going to lose because he creeps out single women."

"All you had to do was watch Romney discussing “binders full of women,” and you understood, intuitively, where women stood with him: We’re a category of thing to be held in containers and accessed when needed, roughly the same as pistachio nuts or lock washers. Romney is the guy who takes you out to his club, because he’s comfortable there. Then he either orders for you or tells you what’s good and then gets petulant if you don’t order it, because he’s already TOLD you what’s good, and it’s the chateaubriand, it is NOT the pasta primavera. He’ll be chummy with the maitre d’ — he respects status — but abusive to the busboy. With you, he’ll be extremely chivalrous. He will pull out your chair. He will elaborately walk to the passenger side door, open it, seat you and close the door before getting behind the wheel, even if time is short. "

and

Gene: I’m fine with all this, but I would like to observe that this entire line of analysis — reducing the girl vote into a matter of romantic preference — is not entirely consistent with rigorous feminism.

Gina: I know. You’ll get letters. But don’t underestimate our seriousness of purpose. I can tell you, for example, who the single woman’s dream date is going to be for 2016.

Gene: Who?

Gina: Elizabeth Warren.

Whole article at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-dating-himself/2012/11/30/f9a53d06-301d-11e2-ac4a-33b8b41fb531_story.html