Maureen Dowd: "Men have not only stopped evolving – they’re devolving"

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-11-20 22:44

Article here. Excerpt:

'Are men necessary?

No.

And I can prove it in eight words: Rob Ford. Ted Cruz. Dick Cheney. Anthony Weiner.

For centuries, it was widely thought that women were biologically unsuited to hold leadership positions.

Power was best wielded by men, theorists felt, because men were impersonal, unemotional, forthright and reasonable.
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But the tables have finally turned. Men have not only stopped evolving. They’re devolving.

Now it is unstable male temperament that is causing alarm. Male politicians are engaging in sneaky, catty, weepy, ditzy, shrewish behaviour that is anything but reasonable and impersonal.

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month, after all. Men have raging hormones every day, as we noticed when Dick Cheney rampaged around the globe like Godzilla.'

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You can always count on Mo. Anyway, I wonder if she *honestly believes* that if women held political positions in the same degree men do that there would be so much less silliness coming from pols?

I don't know if there'd be any more, but doubt there'd be any less. I see no evidence that female pols are any more or less likely to act nuts than male ones; perhaps in different ways, but nuts anyway.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-11-21 03:47