Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics The Media "We scream, We Swoon, How Dumb Can We Get?"

admit it ladies, the OB syndrome, well, it's devastatingly viral...

Yes, but they run a campaign about as well as they can drive a car.

LOL I have never swooned in my life...lusted after yes...swooned over; no

I have to say I resent the implication that my support for Obama stems from my nether regions rather than my brain. I don't even think the first part of the article was correct and it went downhill from there. While there is an emotional difference between men and women, that doesn't translate into my inability to think intellectually.

I especially resented her assessment of woman who enjoyed reading "Love, Eat, Pray" a book she seems to have competedly missed the point of. Not only that but her failure to truly understand the complexity that is woman, shows a shallowness which speaks more of her character then of those she seems willing to diminish.

Shame on the Washington Post for publishing such drivel. I'm sure the point was to incite those emotional women. I don't know if some jackass was getting his jollies reading the responses or not but my respect for the Post has diminshed even farther. Not that there was much left anyway.

controversy sells newspapers, no such thing as bad publicity, many of the readers of right wong blogs and bloviators are the "librul" targets of much invective.

ahh the old reverse psychology

I would agree with you, Schlack,but we're not talking blogs here, we're talking a major American newspaper. And this article isn't controversial - it's the sexist, print equivalent of Amos 'n' Andy.

If they wanted controversy, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of topics they might have selected simply from the area of "women's issues." They could even do it in a way that was both informative and entertaining. This article is neither.

And someone just reminded me - would anyone care to "compare and contrast" this supposed swooning over Obama with the wolf whistles and general "va-va-voom" silliness on this site whenever Elizabeth Kucinich is pictured/mentioned?

well, she is pretty. look, the whole column is absurd. and while she does make a point, she certainly loses credibility at the same time. but i want to point something out. when an opinion is squashed, the outrage is deafening. sometimes the whole point of publishing an opinion such as this, speaking as an editor, is to allow the absurdity to flourish. while i cannot pretend to read the mind of the opinion editor at the post, i would venture a guess that this well could be the case.

how much controversy has it generated? how many letters to the editor? how many more papers will be bought (online views/clicks for advertisers)

2wins, I'm not at all saying this woman should be supressed.

I'm saying an article like this doesn't deserve publication, particularly as a serious piece, in a national newspaper. "Allow the absurdity to flourish?" Why waste the column space?

The Post editor has been reported as saying "well, we didn't really mean to publish it as a serious article, really, kindof" - but they haven't gone any further than that, either, and they haven't labelled the piece as anything other than "opinion."

2wins, this writer is not stating any opinion other than the one that women are dumb. There is no need to squash that opinion, but neither is there a reason to publish it, either.

Mick's 2 cents - It ain't that big of a deal. Sexism exists. I kinda knew that before the article was written. Mountain, molehill and all that.

Sexism, racism, it's all good?