
Charlotte Allen obviously did poorly in rhetoric class, because I can’t tell if her opinion piece, “We Scream, We Swoon. How dumb can we get?” from the Washington Post is satirical, is reinforcing gendered stereotypes of women, or is reinforcing angered/crazy stereotypes of radicalism (and that its taken seriously).
This paragraph, for example, grabs me by the balls:
“I can’t help it, but reading about such episodes of screaming, gushing and swooning makes me wonder whether women — I should say, ‘we women,’ of course — aren’t the weaker sex after all. Or even the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions, psychosomatic flailings and distraction by the superficial. Women ‘are only children of a larger growth,’ wrote the 18th-century Earl of Chesterfield. Could he have been right?”
Go on, Charlotte.
“Then there’s Clinton’s nearly all-female staff, chosen for loyalty rather than, say, brains or political savvy. Clinton finally fired her daytime-soap-watching, self-styled ‘Latina queena’ campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, known for burning through campaign money and for her open contempt for the ‘white boys’ in the Clinton camp. But stupidly, she did it just in time to alienate the Hispanic voters she now desperately needs to win in Texas or Ohio to have any shot at the Democratic nomination.”
Interesting… so she should have kept a staff member to appeal to a minority community and win votes? WWMD (What would a man do)?
“I swear no man watches ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ unless his girlfriend forces him to. No man bakes cookies for his dog. No man feels blue and takes off work to spend the day in bed with a copy of ‘The Friday Night Knitting Club.’ No man contracts nebulous diseases whose existence is disputed by many if not all doctors, such as Morgellons (where you feel bugs crawling around under your skin). At least no man I know. Of course, not all women do these things, either — although enough do to make one wonder whether there isn’t some genetic aspect of the female brain, something evolutionarily connected to the fact that we live longer than men or go through childbirth, that turns the pre-frontal cortex into Cream of Wheat.”
Read the rest of the article to read statistical evidence that women are bad drivers.
Charlotte Allen is a Harvard grad who was against Harvard opting to accept more women, and spoke up for a professor who was against it, claiming that “feminism” is an ideology that was a force-insert into the societal ebb and flow. Of course, I am referring to her piece in the Dallas Morning News where she discusses it. That piece is entitled, “Martyr or moron? He dared to question feminism’s big lie.”
Additionally, she is gal-pals with Ann Coulter–you might know her as “satan.”
Word of advice to Charlotte: look between your legs. It’s not there.
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