I've had a hard time taking McElroy seriously for the past year or so, since she wrote a column in which she tried to explain the lack of female "fire fighters" by any means except the truth: a womn can't pick up a 200-lb. victim in a smoky, blazing, 140-degree f. living room, sling him over her shoulder, and carry him out a window, onto a ladder, and down to safety.
Hey Wendy, next time you take a well-deserved crack at the over-victimization mentality, please make it specific, like ridiculous protests against golf clubs or some other bs, instead this tired old vagueness.
Most of the women I know today don't feel "powerless" in the least (thanks in most part to the women's movement of the 60s and 70s), although it can certainly be argued that women have been "victimized" and "powerless" in the past and that inequalities of pay still exist...sorry to rain colors on your black-and-white parade.