Amazingly stupid, sexist column in WaPo today!! ("How Dumb Can We Get?")

[Sparkly]

I'm posting this here, because it does discuss women's behavior re: the candidates -- basically, that women who support Obama act like Beatles fans, and that Clinton has run a terrible campaign cuz women just are "kind of dim."

The final paragraph:

So I don't understand why more women don't relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts' content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022902992.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[housewolf]

1. Or perhaps her "problems" are related to this:

I read this today, over at Talking Points Memo:

"Granted, Hillary entered the game confronting some intrinsic challenges. One is that she's a woman. There are those who would argue that this creates an unfair and impossible obstacle for her. How can any woman display the toughness that makes a credible Commander in Chief without also being pegged as an abrasive shrew?

Before long, a woman will come along who is equipped to use her gender as a point of strength. A woman who taps naturally into all the positive feelings people have towards the powerful and influential women in their lives. Voters will defend this woman when she's attacked as if their own sister were under assault. And they will bend to her will to avoid disappointing her, out of an almost holy respect, as they do for their mothers. Such a woman will come along, but it appears her name will not be Hillary Clinton. "

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/hillarys-cards-obamas-deal.php

[Caoimhe]

2. Clap trap that I'm sure appeals to the Ann Coulter crowd

I think Gloria Steinem was the one who said "If you aren't a feminist, you're a masochist"

We have come so far and yet at the same time, things haven't changed in the minds of self-loathing women.

[Berry Cool]

3. Oh my God, where did they FIND this Phyllis Schlafly wannabe throwback?

This "You know, we women are all pretty damn stupid. Except me" person.

Even arguing the evo-psych crap and the "men's brains are bigger than women's" stuff to support her argument that females, with the exception of a few "outliers," are all featherheaded flibbertigibbets who would rather do nothing all day but sit around watching Oprah, eating bonbons, listening to Celine Dion, reading bodice-ripper novels, and swooning over politicians (because Lord knows, when they say a politician inspires them and makes them feel hopeful, it really just means they Got a Crush On Obama, right?).

Send this one back to the nineteenth century! And hurry! :scared:

[Sparkly]

4. Incredible, isn't it?

Loved the part about how women faint at Obama rallies from something akin to Beatlemania. People faint at all sorts of rallies and other public events, including other candidates' speeches -- but that didn't fit in with the theme. :eyes:

[Recursion]

5. Let me see if I get this:

Women are less intelligent than men, and women faint when the male candidate talks, so we should vote for the female candidate because she doesn't make women faint.

[Sparkly]

6. I didn't read it that way at all.

I thought it was about not worrying our dim little heads about such things as politics.

[Blondiegrrl]

7. That's the impression I got.

Terrible opinion piece.

As for Hillary -- well, I think her failed campaign is due largely to boobs like Mark Penn, not boobs as in "the gender with breasts."