CIVILITY: Women round the bases to find they've gotten nowhere

St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 02/22/2005 | Maureen Dowd

[rwa265]

Maureen Dowd - What a sad, embittered, lonely woman.

[TBarnett34]

In keeping with the rules of Free Republic...

[hauerf]

Mureeen Dowd IS a gaffe.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Maureen Dowd - What a sad, embittered, lonely woman.

Yes, but at least she has Michael Douglas.

</sarcasm>

[HMFIC]

CROM'S BLOOD!

BOINNNNNNNNNNNG!

[rwa265]

Thank you. I was looking for a picture . . .

[SMARTY]

The most uncivil and outright openly hateful behavior I have ever endured in my life has been and continues to be handed to me by women. No man has EVER been discourteous to me.

Women need to comprehend, if you behave, look and talk like a 'dance hall girl' you will NOT be treated like a debutante. Real simple stuff your mom should teach you early on.

[marty60]

Once you understand that Feminist have penis envy, everything else falls into place. They hate being a woman. It is best explained in their absolute support of the murder of the unborn. What is inargueably the most important socially and personally, act a woman can solely perform....giving birth... is the most despised and attacked by the likes of Dowdy.

[Congressman Billybob]

Her column has almost nothing to do with Dr. Summers, President of Harvard. Instead, Dowd is getting pathological about the term "slump busters" as used by testosterone-excessive baseball players. Reading between the lines, Dowd is concerned that she is no longer even a slump buster.

She is putting a Hunter Thompson in her columns, without the integrity of actual suicide. If Bill Keller, the Editor of the NY Times cannot see that, doesn't he have any friends who are psychiatrists give him a clue?

Stop this woman before she writes again.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, Confessions of a "Salivating Moron"

[HMFIC]

Once you understand that Feminist have penis envy...

BAM! There it is! I've been saying that for decades! They are FURIOUS that they are physically weaker than men and DO NOT have any lumber swinging in the breeze. Women like Dowd, while good-looking in their younger days, ruin it the INSTANT they open their oral sewer.

[sneakers]

Maureen, methinks perhaps Prof. Summers hit a bit too close to the mark? We don't all have the same capabilities. Just accept that fact. Variety is the spice of life, you know!

Viva la difference! (sorry about the french folks!)

[Congressman Billybob]

"pulling" a Hunter Thompson, not "putting."

Sorry about that.

Billybob

[Alia]

The problem is "DO ME" feminism and feminist Academics. Mr. Summers made them feel so victimized, it's almost like "rape", in their own linguistic set. The lobotimized sisters must be having oodles of "sisterhood" groupie (gropie?) meetings. It's so perverse.

They are so perverse.

[Rummyfan]

"I do feel that people who say men and women are exactly equal in every way are silly. ... [M]y girlfriends, already at 23, are thinking, 'What career can I choose that will also suit having children?' And it is limiting. Whereas my male friends aren't thinking that way. ... Mostly I think guys think about a job that will support their family, which pushes them away from family contact, while family pushes women away from careers. ...

"People are such amazing creatures, and to be able to make one — I mean, I can't make anything. I can't make a paper airplane, but I can make a person. That's an amazing gift. If I'm able to, I would love to. ... Whenever a guy says, 'Thank God I don't have to give birth,' I'm like, 'Are you crazy? That's the luckiest thing about being a girl.' "

Natalie Portman as quoted in the Washington Times:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20050220-100703-7445r.htm

At least Natalie gets it!

[NRA1995]

What does Maureen Dowd look like anyway? Picture? Would like to see just how far up Michael Douglas traded (I'm not even a fan of his).

[rockabyebaby]

>>>The problem isn't female aptitude; it's male attitude.<<<

Fact the truth Maureen, it's FEMALE INAPTITUDE, plain and simple. Truth hurts eh moe?

[the OlLine Rebel]

"We got a brutal glimpse into the thinking of a certain segment of the male species reading the transcript of the condescending musings of Harvard's president, Lawrence Summers, on the "intrinsic aptitude" and "variability of aptitude" of women."


Oh please. I'm sure Mr. Summers had no such intention as being "condescending". Nor I'm sure did he have an "attitude".

Sometimes the truth hurts. Telling the truth isn't the problem, it's what you do with it. Or, how the "victim" responds to it.

So women on the whole may not be as good at math, or as quick-thinking. That doesn't mean there are not brilliant women, OR, most importantly, that all women will be shut out of jobs just because most women aren't as good as men.

I was hoping this article (w/o noticing this was by Dowd) was about how indeed women haven't gotten very far. In terms of being treated as sex objects, I think it's gotten worse. Assuming men were horrid sex-crazed woman-exploiters in the old days, the '60s "sex revolution" did NOT bring men UP to the level of "morally pure" women, but rather took women DOWN to the level of sex-crazed hedonist decadents - who get used much more than 100 years ago. But no talk here about that here. I'm sure liberal Dowd is fine w/free sex. She just doesn't want to hear some1 speak the simple truth (truths which include women are better at other things). And she tags that truth-telling as "arrogance" of some kind.

[Tax-chick]

Even some men I know felt awful for the unwitting slump busters who would now read "Juiced" and realize that the best night of their lives actually was the worst.

This article displays what she thinks of women, even more than what she thinks of men. She thinks women, particularly homely or overweight women, are so despicable that "the best night of their lives" was when they had sex with a stranger who happened to be a baseball player.

Both Ms. Dowd and the people she's describing are sad and pitiful beyond words.

[TBarnett34]

What does Maureen Dowd look like anyway?

[HMFIC]

4 years ago. Add nag lines and more crow's feet and there you have it. A liberal HAG!